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RISE AND SHINE, MAGGOTS! YOU AREN'T WORTHY OF CALLING YOURSELVES TROPERS UNTIL I'M THROUGH WITH YOU! Drill Sergeant Nasty's job is simple — turn the bunch of new recruits he's been charged with training into lean, mean fighting machines. The more you hate him, the more you will learn! So he gives you Training from Hell to break you down so he can build you back up. But often, he seems to revel in the breaking a lot more than the building. In a way, he's the military trainee's equivalent of a Mean Boss, but there's seldom any other type. The only training method that Drill Sergeant Nasty knows is The Spartan Way. He yells. He carpet bombs your ears with profanity. He makes you scrub floors with toothbrushes. He will make you drop down and give him 20, 50, or whatever arbitrary number he comes up with. He tends to use Sound Off in drills a lot. Eventually, you'll hate his guts, which is usually exactly how he wants you to feel. He is usually based on R. Lee Ermey (who actually was a Marine drill instructor for two years) or a Scary Black Man (see: Louis Gossett, Jr.). On kids' TV, this same character is a gym teacher, coach, or another authority figure, but not necessarily a Sadist Teacher. He's often a former drill instructor who has trouble hanging up the chevrons. (The fact that the Presidential Fitness Test, which was used as the benchmark for fitness in U.S. schools from 1956 to 2013, was primarily a milestone of fitness for the military might have contributed to this stereotype.) The work will often imply that Drill Sergeant Nasty is right: abrasive though he may be, everything he does is for your own good and everyone will come out the better for it (or at least, better able to survive Hell). Of course, in the film Full Metal Jacket, the Trope Codifier drives one of the recruits into a mental breakdown that results in his murder and the recruit's suicide, an outcome that you almost never see in any other examples despite being the progenitor of such a character. He will often address those under his command as "maggots", "ladies", "morons", or any other insults he can think of to motivate the people under him. He may also dish out (often derogatory) nicknames. In Britain, the popular image is of the Sergeant Major, who is usually much less abusive, but no less demanding, and may or may not be marching up and down the square. If a British work has Shown Their Work, this role may well be filled by the Provost Sergeant, who is in charge of base discipline, and who the drill sergeants send recruits to go and see for their punishment. In something of an ironic twist, the popularity of this character has impacted real military training. Recruits often enter with at least a passing familiarity with the trope and don't take it (or the instructor) seriously. However, such an attitude is likely to earn such recruits a lot of extra PT (physical training), screams in their face, and a very harsh reminder of why it's not a good idea to diss your superiors in the military. Drill instructors, drill sergeants, sergeant majors, etc. have to go through quite a bit of training of their own to get where they are, as well as having good records of service in whatever military branch they serve in. Plus, military or otherwise, making someone mad at you who knows how to kick your ass seven ways to Sunday is not very smart. This often spills into works that depict normal life in the military, more often than not, a higher ranking officer or non-commissioned officer (NCO) will randomly scream at the low private and punish him with push-ups or a random exercise. This tacticnote known as getting smoked ("beasted", in British Army slang) is rare nowadays, as most of the US Armed Forces branches have banned this practice outside basic training and the Officer/NCO themselves would get a far worse punishment for having ordered the punishment, but it still happens. A very specific example of The Neidermeyer that, unlike that trope, will seldom lead his men into actual combat, because his job is to train them, then send them on to their next assignment. Compare Sergeant Rock, the guy who leads them once Drill Sergeant Nasty is done training them. Compare Weakness Is Just a State of Mind, where the sergeant may abuse the idea that their troop's lack of drive and ability is a deliberate decision, not from a medical problem or dangerous depletion of strength. The Drill Sergeant Nasty is one of the best examples of the Zero-Approval Gambit. It instantly provides 40 people who have nothing in common with one unifying dream, namely the sergeant's slow, painful and embarrassing death. Compare Veteran Instructor. |
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In Valhalla, the Sergeants Cameron all exhibit traits of the nasty drill sergeant, shouting tough speeches and such. | |
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Alberich from Heralds of Valdemar has to put on the Drill Sergeant Nasty role on a regular basis, as part of his job as Weaponsmaster. Worth noting is that he's only like this when he's actively training people. He's fully capable of advising and counselling when needed. | |
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Kunskapens Korridorer: Olle Barsk is a downplayed example. He can be rather mean to his students, especially if they're not very good at PE. And he can also be a sexist jerk against the female teachers at times. But he can't really hurt anybody, and he will be the butt of many jokes. | |
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Coach Dinklage (played by Vinnie Jones) in She's the Man starts out as one of these but turns out to be a pretty okay guy in the end, especially when he defends Viola's right to play soccer with the boys based on the fact that gender discrimination is wrong. | |
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TerraTech: Sergeant Smash, quest-giver for the Hawkeye faction. He starts out berating the player at every opportunity but mellows out as the player's license grade goes up. | |
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In The Rough Riders, one of these turns up at the camp, only to be promptly run out of town by The Good Captain (played by Sam Elliot). | |
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The All Guardsmen Party were once assigned ostensibly light duty training a bunch of officer candidates for a local Planetary Defence Force, mostly young lads who came from money and had signed up chiefly because they were looking for an alternative to doing any actual work. They subsequently spent several days dicking around and failing to take their training seriously, until the titular Party ran out of patience and decided to adjust their attitudes the Imperial Guard way. It worked surprisingly well. | |
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Green Lantern: In a flashback, Kilowog's drill instructor from his days as a rookie, Lantern Ermey, who instilled within him the drive of a drill instructor and inspired him to push his own recruits as hard as possible so they'll have a better chance of simply surviving once they graduate to full Lantern. Kilowog's Sinestro Corps counterpart Arkillo fills a similar role, though he is even worse, and eats recruits that fail him. In Green Lanterns, Guy Gardner does this while putting Jessica Cruz through training. It riles up her anxiety so badly, she turns and slugs him in the face. |
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During a comedic X-Men storyline that depicted an alien army invading Australia, the invasion fell apart for several reasons. One of them was the alien soldiers actually bonding with the Australians over beer and trading stories instead of fighting. One panel depicts a massive alien sitting in a bar with an Australian citizen who was also an ex-soldier, both of them sharing stories of the Drill Sergeant Nasties they'd encountered. | |
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The film version of Ender's Game portrays Sergeant James Dap as a Scary Black Man with a British accent who constantly yells at Launchies and makes Ender "drop and give [him] 20" for doing what he previously claims to allow (i.e. ask legitimate questions). While Ender is doing push-ups, he continues to yell at him, telling Ender that he's never going to make commander and that Dap will never salute him. After Ender replies that Dap will, Dap adds 20 more push-ups (although he stops Ender after a few more). Finally, he yells for Ender to "shut it" when the boy continues to mouth off. Later, though, after Ender does make commander, Dap salutes him and treats him with respect. | |
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In The Amazing Maurice, Darktan serves as both this and Sergeant Rock to the rats. One example of his Drill Sergeant Nasty side is when he hammers home to Nourishing why you want to be the second mouse: because the second mouse gets the cheese, but the first mouse gets the trap! | |
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Sabres of Infinity has Sergeant Hernandes, a harsh, unlikeable disciplinarian who is thoroughly disliked by his men. | |
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Tenma's gun coach in Monster. | |
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A description of the Sarge from Cyclomaniacs Epic: | |
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Andor introduces Lt Gorn during the Aldhani heist arc, the inside man to the Caper Crew planning to steal imperial garrison wages. Gorn uses this as part of his Briar Patching tactic, deliberately asking his men to work overtime and do busywork during the Eye of Aldhani, an astronimical event that everyone looks forward to. As a result, the soldiers ask for time off, leaving the garrison staffed with a skeleton crew that allows the thieves unfettered access to the vault. | |
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Subverted, of course, by Sgt. Carter in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. | |
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Fauji: Major Narayanan and Major Rai are the drill instructors for a squad of 2nd Liuetenants at the Commando school intended for officers only. Narayanan is the more loud in-your-face version, while Rai speaks softer, but will dole out the harsher punishments. That said, those harsher punishments are reserved mostly for his younger brother. | |
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In Remember the Titans, Coach Boone adopts this attitude to force his players to get over their prejudice. | |
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Drill Sergeant Clubrush, a Salamandastron Hare from the Redwall series, tends to play with this trope. At the traditional ceremony welcoming Salamandastron's new recruits, for instance, Clubrush appears in a costume of a very own kind; roots are tied to his legs, to represent the recruits' guts, long leaves and round tubers attached to his belts, to represent the recruits' ears and bobtails. | |
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In That '70s Show, Red Foreman is a variant in that he's not a gym coach. Rather, he embodies this attitude both as a father to his son Eric and as a supervisor at Price-Mart. Rather than serving in the Army, Red was a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy during World War II and applies many of the same attitudes to civilian life. When Red announces that he's gotten the job, Hyde congratulates him by saying "God help the poor bastards who work for you!", which Red takes as a compliment. As for his parenting style, suffice it to say that Eric is a "Well Done, Son" Guy... | |
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Radio Enfer: Jocelyne hires a sergeant (played by Alain Zouvi) to help her out guiding students to their future career after she becomes the school counselor. He turns out to be this trope immediately after Jean-Lou signs up to join the army. | |
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Gauntlet in the Marvel comics series Avengers: The Initiative is a textbook example of this trope. He eventually gets beaten within an inch of his life by one of his own recruits (though it's for using the term "New Warriors" as an insult, not because of his teaching style). He gets replaced by Taskmaster, who tells the new recruits he's not going to do the whole "Full Metal Jacket" thing. Tasky's method is more scathing sarcastic insults. | |
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Lezalit in Mount & Blade has elements of this in his dialogue and the dialogue of others when they talk about him. Among the potential party members he specializes in training troops, so it fits. | |
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Jo Lupo to the Astraeus project cadets on Eureka. | |
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This idea was spoofed in one scene of the Woody Allen movie Love and Death; the movie takes place in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, but when Woody's character Boris is forced to enlist he and his fellow recruits are trained by a black drill sergeant who fits this trope exactly. | |
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Major Reisman serves this role in The Dirty Dozen, "encouraging" one of his "recruits" up a rope with a submachine gun. Sergeant Clyde Bowren is more of a Sergeant Rock, although he is still not someone the Dozen want to cross. | |
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The Steve Wilkos Show: Steve Wilkos, the former security director on The Jerry Springer Show until he got his own show in 2007. A former Chicago police officer and Marine, his self-titled talk show very frequently involves confronting guests accused of rape, cheating, domestic and/or child abuse, pedophilia and the like, and absolutely tearing into any guest found guilty of the above via lie detector. Wilkos will not let these guests sit down on his stage until they are proven innocent (and these occurrences are few and far between), and in the most extreme cases will go so far as to throw their chairs against the wall, smashing them into pieces. | |
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The knight preparing Crusaders for the monsters they are likely to meet on their way to the Holy Land on Horrible Histories. | |
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Averted in the Counter-Strike training levels: as elite counter-terrorists, the instructors are consummate professionals, gently guiding you through the course. | |
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Z has Sergeant Zod, who looks like and acts exactly like one of these, except that he's a robot. He specifically enjoys chewing out the two bumbling protagonist robots. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey in its Redux Updated Re Release adds a new dungeon with Sgt. Demonee-Ho, AKA the lovable Series Mascot Jack Frost dressed like a Space Marine, who is found on multiple levels of the dungeon where he "drafts" the protagonist into his boot camp and complete various challenge side quests. Despite the protagonist already being a veteran special forces officer, Sgt. Demonee-Ho's presence and yelling, some of which is taken directly from Trope Codifier Gunnery Sergeant Hartman himself, is enough to scare him into acting like a nervous recruit on boot camp again. | |
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Carry On: Carry On, Sergeant: Sergeant Grimshawe is a downplayed example of this, trying calmer methods than usual in what is going to be his last squad. Corporal Copping fits the role to a tee, however. Sergeant Major MacNutt in Carry On Up the Khyber. He even treats a normal conversation as if he was barking out commands to his soldiers. And Captain S. Melly in Carry On England, who is certainly not thrilled to discover women under his command, and does his best to ensure that the experimental mixed unit fails. |
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During DC Rebirth, Batwoman adopts this role for herself in Detective Comics since she is tasked with training some of Gotham's younger heroes to face a larger threat. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph gives us Sgt. Calhoun, a protagonist from the First-Person Shooter Hero's Duty, whose role in-game is to act as this to the player character. | |
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SD Gundam Force gives us Gunbike, whose AI was Captain Gundam's original pre-deployment instructor. He's brought in to help the newly-formed Gundam Force learn to work as a team, and starts the training off with a long report on their various flaws. | |
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Nanoha of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is a Sergeant Rock, strict, yet fair and ultimately caring for the growth of the New Meat. Since this doesn't make for much comedy, however, the Fan Webcomic by Q-Ice turned her into a classic Drill Sergeant Nasty◊. | |
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Sergeant Haldeman in The Draft warns that any recruit who messes with him "will get more grief than you can handle". Literally, as Pit Bull discovers; he is a projecting empath who inflicts a Despair Event Horizon on his targets. | |
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M.I. High: The M.I. 9 fitness instructor Jed Black in "Fit to Wurst". | |
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A Flower's Touch: Sargent Crawford, who becomes Aerith's trainer after joining SOLDIER. He's actually a fairly mild example, but Aerith still regards him as pretty nasty. | |
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Bergen from The Night Unfurls fits this trope to a T. Strict and abrasive to his recruits, yelling and calling them derogatory names are part of his routine. | |
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In the Channel Awesome special Kickassia, MarzGurl becomes the drill sergeant in charge of training the various nerdy critics into a military once they take over their own country. She quickly makes everyone there terrified of her and is quick to physically abuse any of them for any reason whatsoever. | |
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G.I. Joe: This role was originally fulfilled by actual drill instructor Leatherneck, who is a moral absolutist who doesn't have time for your excuses, maggot! Beachhead, although little more than a background character in the Marvel comic series, became this in G.I. Joe (Devil's Due) series when assigned to train simple grunt Greenshirts. At one point, he made a recruit clean the barracks not with a toothbrush but with a POTATO. Now that's a new level of Drill Sergeant Nasty... An Informed Ability of Sgt. Slaughter; while his toy bio describes him as a Drill Sergeant Nasty, his comic book appearances were limited and avoided this trope. He plays the trope straight in his animated appearances, as listed below. |
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Battalion, actually nicknamed "the Drill Sergeant from Hell", from the Teen Titans spin-off Team Titans. | |
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Varsity Blues has Coach Kilmer in his pursuit of yet another championship season. | |
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Kill Bill: Pai Mei. A martial arts teacher, not a military instructor, but still qualifies. And how. If you show any disrespect to the usual drill sergeant type, they will chew you out until their throat is raw or send you to a punishment. Pai Mei will snatch out your eye. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami has Commander Cathy, who's tasked to train Keeper Mercury's army. Working with dumb goblins, squishy warlocks, and disrespectful orcs would turn anyone into this, but she seems to enjoy making them train The Spartan Way whether they like it or not. | |
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In October 2013, Curtis gets a new gym coach named Coach Otlowski who seems like this. His language seems to be a PG-rated parody of actual cussing, saying things like, "I've been hired to sweat some chubbery off you oversized junior couch potatoes!". ("Good thing he wasn't hired to be the new English teacher!" muses Curtis.) | |
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In The Weaver Option, former Dark Angel Gavreel Forcas finds himself acting as a training officer for the Guard regiments he is attached to and comes to find that he enjoys shouting at recruits until they start getting things right. | |
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Evangelion 303: Colonel Toshiro Nagato is Asuka and Jessika's commanding officer during their B1C training. Both women complained about him being stern, stiff and angry the whole time and drilling the word "discipline" into their heads endlessly. Still, he was not a rude person. He was just doing his work -train them hard- and he really valued them and appreciated them. | |
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At the beginning of Modern Warfare, Captain Price is a mild version of this as Soap goes through the SAS killhouse. It doesn't last past the first mission. | |
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Subverted (like everything else) in Arrested Development: when Buster joins Army, his drill sergeant is not allowed to "motivate" him over the climbing wall because there have been a variety of lawsuits. Fortunately, by the end of the episode, his older brother Gob is around to tell him "Now get over that wall, homo!" And then slugs him in the gut on the way down, saying: "Now when you do this without getting punched, you'll have more fun." |
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MechWarrior: 2: The Clans featured a surly sibko training instructor who would call you various epithets, often "Freebirth" or "Surat" (a kind of winged-monkey-rat, often considered a pest animal). The demanding, harsh, and unkind attitude is half due to The Spartan Way that dictates Clan warrior life and half instructors being viewed as old has-beens—in essence, an insult along the lines of "those who can't do, teach." 2: Mercenaries featured a short training campaign under the watchful eye and sarcastic tongue of Sergeant "Dead-Eye" Unther. Unther is also an old warrior, except that this is actually respected in the Inner Sphere where Mercenaries takes place. It means he's competent enough to live that long. The attitude is just due to Unther being a Blood Knight and just kind of a dick in general, to even the most compliant of rookies. 3 is an aversion, in that you ended up with more of a Drill Sergeant Chatty, a Southern-Fried Private who just happened to outrank you. While less insulting, he still manages to come off as condescending instead. 4 and its spinoffs generally had respectful professional trainers who did no screaming at all, and were generally uninteresting as NPCs. 5 has an interesting case in that your trainer is stern but obviously patient and affectionate with you... because the trainer is your character's father, Nik Mason. |
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Goosebumps (1995): The episode "Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes" featured the main characters living next door to a retired Drill Sergeant Nasty, who in his post-army life has become obsessed with cultivating the perfect garden. He gets his comeuppance when he is turned into a lawn ornament at the end. | |
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R. Lee Ermey even played a character in Scrubs (the Janitor's father) who sprang from the same cookie-cutter as most of his other roles. | |
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Downplayed with Keith Shadis in Attack on Titan, who noticeably spares certain recruits (usually survivors of Titan attacks) from this routine. An observer comments that the point of this trope is to break recruits down so they can be built back up into soldiers, so heaping abuse on those who have already been broken would be pointless cruelty. Later, he's also willing to consider that Eren's problem may be faulty equipment, rather than incompetence. In fact, it's later revealed that Keith himself was the one who sabotaged Eren's equipment as he was secretly a friend of his parents and wanted to stop him from throwing his life away before seeing how determined he was. It is, however, noted that training is exceptionally unforgiving and instructors regularly do things like cut safety lines to gauge a recruit's reaction. Those killed during training are written off as having never had a chance to stand against the Titans anyway. Weirdly, his "breaking in the recruits" routine is considered one of the series biggest CMOF's because of how hilariously over the top he is (voiced exceptionally well by Patrick Seitz in the dub); particularly when he caught Sasha munching on a potato during initiation. |
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Akira Takaoka from Assassination Classroom has a "9-sticks-to-one-carrot" philosophy, is more like a dictator than an officer, is prone to straight up beating the students when they voice their concerns or question his draconian methods, and "accidentally" leaves a picture of the soldiers he's tortured in front of Karasuma. And he's always smiling. | |
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Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone plays this trope straight in The Pacific when sent back to Camp Pendleton (at his own request) to train new recruits. However, instead of hating him, his men look up to him because of what he did at Guadalcanal and they understand that everything he has them do is for their own good. He's also unusual in that he subsequently joins his men in combat; moreso in that he gets KIA. | |
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Keepers of the Elements: Deanna, the previous Earth Keeper has shades of this when training Heather, but mellows out over time as Heather improves in both her attitude and wielding the Element that they share. | |
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Whateley Universe: Gunnery Sergeant Oscar Bardue, JROTC Drill Instructor for the Super Hero School Whateley Academy, as well as one of the main planners for the training sims and Combat Finals. He's retired military, an imposing black man in his sixties, and perfectly willing to become Drill Sergeant Nasty if it's required to get the point across to the superpowered mutants he's training. Compare and contrast Erik Mahren, the firearms instructor (up to a point), who can and will take down any student who's stupid enough to give him lip on the ranges. In the Gen 2 stories, Bardue's adopted daughter Caitlin (who had enrolled at Whateley in Gen 1, almost immediately after Mahren mysteriously disappeared) manages the firearm ranges in a manner suspiciously similar to the long-vanished "Range Nazi". |
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Career Sergeant Zim in the movie version of Starship Troopers, arguably to the point of exaggeration. Nastier than most as during basic training he callously broke one recruit's arm and pinned another one's hand to a wall with a throwing knife. The reason he could get away with it is that the medics of the era are apparently capable of patching up such injuries completely without leaving so much as a scar. (The book version differs; see below.) | |
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Discworld: In Unseen Academicals, the late sports-master of Unseen University, Evans the Striped, was apparently like this, judging by the behavior of anyone blowing on his possessed whistle. Said behavior includes threatening to make anyone who didn't bring his uniform play in his underpants, or insisting that running about in the sleet and rain builds character. The sports mistress at the Quirm College for Young Ladies in Soul Music is Iron Lily, who is rumoured to lift weights with her teeth and who runs down the touchline screaming "Get some ball, you bunch of soft nellies!" When Susan meets a Valkyrie, she's struck by the resemblance. |
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Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway, Heartbreak Ridge. Clint Eastwood, for those of you who don't habla. At one point, he shoots at his recruits with an AK-47 — the preferred weapon of the enemy, which makes a distinctive sound when fired. | |
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Fallout Tactics begins with an "orientation" for savages, conducted by a Paladin Nasty. Quotes don't do the delivery justice, and part of the humor is the expressions on the inductees' faces. Also, the complete contempt which with he says, "Welcome to the Brotherhood. Dismissed." The same voice actor also voices General Barnaky in the game. That voice actor? R. Lee Ermey. | |
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Dives, raid leader of the World of Warcraft guild Wipe Club (he of 50 DKP Minus fame) has more recordings that are basically hilarious Drill Sergeant Nasty-style vents at his raid group for fucking up a raid (NSFW). In Operation Gnomeregan, the players encounter a sergeant who drills them in certain emotes. He gives the standard insulting introduction but who drops the Drill Sergeant Nasty mannerisms after that. |
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Averted in the Frontlines series by Marko Kloos. The drill sergeants specifically state that they don't do this. They simply wash out any trainee who breaks a rule or isn't measuring up, in part because the expected graduation rate is 25% (so 3 out of every 4 trainees will wash out). | |
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Parodied in Hot Shots!: | |
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Col. Oates of Oates Military Academy in Alaska in the Bill & Ted movies. The central conflict of the first film is that Ted's authoritarian father will ship Ted to the Academy if he fails History, which would mean The End Of The Future As We Know It. Oates actually shows up in the sequel; in person, he's somewhat personable (of course, he is off-duty at the time), but still insanely imposing; it's when he appears as part of Bill and Ted's joint Personal Hell that we see this trope come into play: | |
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Just Shoot Me! had a Whole-Plot Reference to An Officer and a Gentleman once, with Dennis Finch filling in the Emil Foley role towards a group of interns. | |
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The Italian comic Sturmtruppen: the Sergeant is almost a straight example, except he's truly feared only by fresh recruits (the other soldiers always try to play him tricks when he isn't looking their way) and he's actually rather competent into managing Red Shirt lives in battle (less when there's an officer to please or if he really dislikes the designed "victim"). | |
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Sergeant Major MacNutt in Carry On Up the Khyber. He even treats a normal conversation as if he was barking out commands to his soldiers. | |
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Lord Wyldon from Protector of the Small is also an example, but his hardass methods can do more harm than good. Making the young pages ride horses instead of ponies quadruples the riding injuries, insisting that they tough out their injuries rather than use a magical healer makes training more difficult, and refusing to address bullying in his ranks leads to one squire becoming a rapist and another dying in his Ordeal of Knighthood. However, it should be noted that he doesn't punish for the sake of sadism - he's been wounded and toughed out said wounds because the alternative was the royal children dying, and he immediately notices Kel's fear of heights and takes steps to get her down to the ground safely. Kel is grateful for him pushing her so hard, as it prepared her for knighthood better, but this is less because of his training and more because Kel is even more stubborn and determined than he is, which he comes to respect. In the end, while it's acknowledged that while he had some good points, he points out that his methods had serious flaws, resulting in the above-mentioned rapist and death in the Chamber of Ordeal, and he consequently resigns. | |
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In addition to the comic with the above quote in Penny Arcade, the series features a strip where Frank adopts a traditional Drill Sergeant Nasty manner when training the employees in how to sell video games in the holiday season. | |
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In The Wonder Years, Coach Cutlip yells at his middle-school gym—ahem, physical education students as if they were military recruits, sucks the fun out of basketball by being too much of a stickler for strategy and technique, and doesn't hesitate to mention that he has a steel plate in his head. | |
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The Drill Sergeant in Valkyria Chronicles and in her ending, your recruitable Shocktrooper Jane Turner, who surpasses the original in cruelty. | |
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In Family Ties, Skippy's recruiting officer also serves as his drill sergeant, with an appropriate change in demeanor and volume. When Skippy goes AWOL due to his inability to cope with basic training, and the sergeant tracks him to (of course) the Keaton household, he tells Skippy that he could have him court-martialled and jailed. Then he reverts back to "nice guy" mode and informs Skippy that he's merely discharged and goes on to commend him for at least having the guts to try. | |
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Momentary Weakness: Milly (ten years old) takes over the training of the guard for a day, insisting that they follow the normal exercise routine she does with her father every day. One young guard chuckles that this will be an easy day. Another guard points out that she's the daughter of the most powerful, dedicated people in the world. | |
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The Order of the Stick has this in the form of the Empire of Blood's Arena master. Parodied in typical OOTS fashion. | |
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In I, Jedi, Corran confronts Luke, feeling that a lack of discipline led to Kyp Durron falling to the dark side of the Force, and that Luke was not doing enough to instill a sense of discipline in his students. Luke asks Corran if he should have some New Republic drill instructors help with training. | |
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Sergeant Major Basil Plumley in We Were Soldiers, played by Sam Elliot. Sgt. Major Plumley didn't normally bother yelling at recruits, he kept his buttchewing to the many grades of sergeants below him, and wouldn't think twice about straightening out a young officer either. In one scene, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore relates a story of the interconnectedness of a Native American group and how it strengthens the fighting men. Every older woman is termed mother, and every older man is termed grandfather with respect. After finishing this message, Sgt. Major Plumley stands up, looks the lieutenants and captains in the eyes, and says, "If any one of you sons of bitches calls me Grandpa, I'll kill you." | |
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Chief Pangie in Leia, Princess of Alderaan is a downplayed example. She's maliciously cheerful as she leads a Pathfinding class on gruelling multi-hour hikes across difficult terrain. On the first of these, she abandons the class halfway up a mountain and takes a speeder down herself, to test if they were paying enough attention to make it back themselves. The chief is also completely unimpressed by whining and by one of her students who expected a much easier course clearly considering her to be this trope incarnate. Naturally though she is doing this so they'll be able to survive if they're stranded in strange and hostile places, and eventually says so. | |
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High Road To Giratina has Alfa the Staraptor. His tactics may or may not have inspired mutiny within his troops. | |
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Wolverine acts like this on the occasions when he's put in charge of training new X-Men. This includes actually attacking them with his claws out during combat training (he's careful not to actually injure them, but it's still terrifying for them and has a tendency to result in him being on the receiving end of Amusing Injuries). | |
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In Yo-kai Watch, Sgt. Burly (it's in the name) is an exercise coach/personal trainer who dresses in olive drab workout clothes and shouts motivation at those he's training. However, he's shown to actually be a very nice guy who really does care about helping people get fit, and as a result, his services are extremely popular. | |
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Pitch Perfect: Aubrey behaves this way towards the Bellas, putting them through an intense training regimen. It's implied she behaves this way because her father served in the military. | |
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Red Dwarf: Although not a drill sergeant, Queeg from the episode of the same name is exactly this sort of character. And Rimmer himself takes on the role with great relish (in "Meltdown") — mostly parodying Full Metal Jacket — when training various historical figures. Saint Francis of Assisi is told there's "only two kinds from Assisi" (you know the rest of the line), Jean-Paul Sartre gets "Well, Sartre, we don't like existentialists around here, and we certainly don't like French philosophers poncing around in their black polo necks filling everyone's heads with their theories about the bleakness of existence and absurdity of the cosmos, clear?", and there's an inevitable "Get on the floor and give me 50!" directed at Gandhi. |
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Mereoleona in Black Clover does not believe in taking it easy when she's training people, putting them through intense practice. She makes her squad go to the Yultim Volcano to train, practicing using their Mana Skin to climb an incredibly hot, active volcano and drags Asta, Yuno, Noelle, Yami, and Charlotte to come with them against their will. | |
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In a humorous subversion, Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu also includes a high school gym teacher who can't stand S�suke, berates him at every opportunity, and at one point tries to sabotage the Student Council's efforts to sell lunch. S�suke, wrongly assuming that the teacher is simply acting as a drill sergeant, holds him in great esteem. | |
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The Asterisk War: In volume 2/anime episodes 5-7, Kouichirou Toudou acts as manager and fight trainer to his thirteen-year-old niece Kirin Toudou. He's emotionally and physically abusive, tells Kirin that his methods are the only way to release her father Seijirou (who was unjustly detained for a Crime of Self-Defense), and is mostly just using her as an Unwitting Pawn to further his career in Galaxy. Ayato Amagiri calls out Kouichirou on his actions, however, and over the course of the arc she agrees she needs to kick Kouichirou of her life in order to improve. Kouchirou decides to atone for his misdeeds by the time of volume 11. | |
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Lighter Than Heir: Sergeant Austerlitz, who is actually a decorated veteran. In an interesting twist, it doesn't fully work in instilling discipline in the squad of the protagonists who end up more Mildly Military. Then again, this is possibly due to the saboteur and spy who had infiltrated their squad. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: Miles Vorkosigan is commanded by the psychotic Metzov early in his career in The Vor Game — and by "psychotic", think cashiered from the Barrayarian military for brutality. | |
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When Tessa from S.S.D.D. starts service with the CORE she is initially assigned a drill sergeant who will literally rip your ears off if you give him lip (and outright states that most of the conscripts will be used as Cannon Fodder). When she joins the "special forces" she gets Corporal Grey, who is slightly more agreeable. | |
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Sergeant L.C. Ross in Private Benjamin, both the film and subsequent TV sitcom. In both versions, he fits the "gruff black man" type, being played by gruff black actor Hal Williams and all. | |
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He's a colonel, not a sergeant, but the commander of Fort Drakon in Dragon Age: Origins has elements of this. He appreciates enthusiasm but not brown-nosing. He's also described by one officer as psychotic, and that if he doesn't do as the colonel wants he'll probably end up scrubbing the rafters with a toothbrush... | |
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Mr. Popo in Dragon Ball Z Abridged "trains" the Z Warriors by taking a page straight out of the drill sergeant playbook. It should be noted that Popo is depicted as a true Sadist Teacher who genuinely enjoys their suffering when he beats them or puts them into fights with foes they have little to no hope of defeating. Here's how he greets the group when they first arrive for training: | |
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In Unseen Academicals, the late sports-master of Unseen University, Evans the Striped, was apparently like this, judging by the behavior of anyone blowing on his possessed whistle. Said behavior includes threatening to make anyone who didn't bring his uniform play in his underpants, or insisting that running about in the sleet and rain builds character. | |
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Light and Dark: The Awakening of the Mage Knight: Sir Fredrick drills his "sorry lot" of first-year squires into the ground. | |
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In an episode of Teach Me! Miss Litchi from BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, Bullet barged into Litchi's clinic to ask for directions to Ikaruga. But when Litchi tried to cover that in a lesson, thus delaying Bullet, she threatened to attack. Before she could do that, Litchi started yelling like a sergeant, completed with overuse of maggot. She actually managed to make Bullet cry by calling her a crybaby, by the way. | |
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Downplayed in Macross Frontier: the main character's best friend puts said main through the wringer of tests for the Private Military Contractors but is doing so not because the main needs training but rather to instill some much-needed humility. | |
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Super Robot Wars has two amongst the Originals: Kai Kitamura, who in his career is known as a very strict and nasty instructor that Masaki calls him the Demon Instructor, which is appropriate, given he punishes Masaki for insubordination by making him stand perfectly still for an hour straight, and has Arado from Original Generation 2 hold three buckets of water for combat idiocy... The other example, Katina Tarask, acts like a Drill Sergeant Nasty, especially on Tasuku or Arado.note Kai softens somewhat into a Team Dad later on - insubordination is still strictly punished, but Kai tries not to give orders he knows In the crossover games, Tetsuya Tsurugi from Great Mazinger tends to be this, as well as South Burning from Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. Melissa Mao takes care of this role in Super Robot Wars Judgment and Super Robot Wars W, going so far as to replace Bright Noa with her own slap (at least, on Calvina's route). |
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Half-Life: Opposing Force features Senior Drill Instructor Dwight T. Barnes and Drill Instructor Sharpe, the latter of whom oversees Shephard's training alongside other unnamed instructors. Nicely played with because during the second half of the level they give you a gun, and Sharpe doesn't have the sense to get out of firing range. Many a player got the Nonstandard Game Over screen by shooting the asshole at the first chance they got. Drill Instructor Barnes takes inspiration from Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, complete with a Shout-Out: |
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Fallout 2 has Drill Sergeant Dornan, who easily qualifies as the Post-Nuclear version of this trope. A Drill Sergeant in Navarro Base, Dornan will berate you if you come without Advanced Power Armor, and after you get the armor downstairs, he will assign you to guard post in the hangar. It's an endless guard post where Dornan will go around the base yelling at all the Enclave Guards, then go to the next guard and yell at him. He'll also yell at you. If you try to sneak away from your guard post, he may catch you and force you back to your guard post. Do it three times and he will attack you! This is pretty bad when you are trying to do a stealthy infiltration; luckily, you don't have to actually volunteer for the post if you don't talk to him. Also, since he is from the Enclave, feel free to unleash your fury on Mr. Post Nuclear Drill Sergeant Nasty. Needless to say, he is one of the game's most memorable NPC's, with almost all of his lines subjected to Memetic Mutation (DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR???). Plus, he's got voice acting (usually reserved for really crucial characters), which means the developers were deliberately positioning him as a One-Scene Wonder. Fallout Tactics begins with an "orientation" for savages, conducted by a Paladin Nasty. Quotes don't do the delivery justice, and part of the humor is the expressions on the inductees' faces. Also, the complete contempt which with he says, "Welcome to the Brotherhood. Dismissed." The same voice actor also voices General Barnaky in the game. That voice actor? R. Lee Ermey. In Fallout 3, the Mister Gutsy model robots sound like soldiers who've been trained by R. Lee Ermey. In an obvious nod to him, a unique joinable one is named RL-3, or "R Lee" leetspeak. The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel has Paladin Gunny, who plays with this trope. He doesn't ream out recruits directly, but the way he talks about them with the Player implies he has such a side to him. |
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In Fallout 3, the Mister Gutsy model robots sound like soldiers who've been trained by R. Lee Ermey. In an obvious nod to him, a unique joinable one is named RL-3, or "R Lee" leetspeak. The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel has Paladin Gunny, who plays with this trope. He doesn't ream out recruits directly, but the way he talks about them with the Player implies he has such a side to him. |
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Coach Schneider from A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge. Adding the spicy new ingredient of "homophobia" to the already-potent Drill Sergeant Nasty recipe, Schneider is a frequenter of leather bars who likes nothing better than forcing adolescent boys to do endless push-ups and run laps around the gym in the dead of night. He's eventually tied up in the showers, whipped on his bare buttocks with towels, then clawed to death by Freddy Krueger. | |
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Tanith, deputy commander of the Holy Guard of Begnion, in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is pretty much specifically stated to be a Drill Sergeant Nasty. In her supports with Marcia, Marcia admits being surprised that Tanith was so hard on her because she had high hopes for her, since Tanith never mentioned that. Late in Path of Radiance, she offers this kind of instruction to Elincia, the princess of Crimea, when the latter seeks instruction as a pegasus knight. | |
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Myth Adventures: Book nine, M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action, sees Guido and Nunzio infiltrating the army of Possiltum and finding themselves at the mercy of such a drill sergeant. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Bob Ross. No, really. He found he wasn't comfortable with the "nasty" bit the job required back in his Air Force tenure days, and that's what led him to become the Nice Guy everyone knew him as. | |
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In the first two Borderlands games, the New-U machines are Hyperion-owned, giving them a sarcastic female AI that mocks you for dying and encourages you not to view it as war profiteering. In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, however, set on Pandora's moon, those machines are programmed by Dahl, a corporation with heavy Private Military Contractors elements, leading to the New-U machines coming across as drill sergeants. | |
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The introduction video for the Halo: Combat Evolved Launch Party featured a drill sergeant humorously insulting the audience and giving them "a quick course in saving your own ass". Said sergeant, Avery Jr. Johnson, would go on to be a major supporting character in the original trilogy, and continued to be a presence in promotional material for years to come, most memorably in the demo for the PC version of Combat Evolved and this ViDoc for Halo 3: ODST's "Firefight" mode. | |
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Jamjars in Banjo-Tooie, fills in for his brother Bottles in teaching the player new moves and being mocked by Kazooie. Where bottles was a shy nerd, Jamjars embodies this persona complete with military rhymes to describe new attacks. | |
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Hayato from Rival Schools, who has a tendency to physically punish his students to unlock their true potential. Hilariously, he'll also make you drop and give him several push-ups right in the middle of a heated battle. His team-up attack, the Nekketsu Guts Cannon, has him turn the other half of the team into a makeshift energy cannon... by pummeling them in the back with his shinai (bamboo training sword) until they relent and fire. They even bow to him afterwards! | |
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In Band of Brothers, Captain Herbert Sobel is both played straight and something of a subversion. His training methods are so brutal that the entire company despises him and becomes motivated to go above and beyond to prove his insults wrong. For half of the first episode, he's shown being extremely tough on his soldiers, revoking their passes for the slightest offenses, making them train longer and harder than the other companies. At one point his battalion commander tells him that his company has the finest performance in their division. However, he subverts the trope somewhat when it's discovered that he's an incompetent commander. While he's great at whipping soldiers into shape in a garrison environment and several acknowledge they would have died without his training, he's not so great when it comes to fieldwork. He's unable to perform simple tasks, such as reading a map properly, resulting in a mutiny by his NCOs who refuse to go to war under his command. Ultimately he's reassigned to a training camp to keep him out of the field, and Easy Company gets a different captain before they mobilize. The real Sobel was apparently a bitter and deeply unhappy man who attempted suicide late in life. | |
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Corporal Strappi from Monstrous Regiment is a particularly nasty example, before he learns he's going to be sent to the front lines and promptly becomes a Dangerous Deserter. By contrast, Recruiting Sergeant Jackrum is A Father to His Men, and only pushes the ones he expects to push back. | |
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In the last episode of StrikerS, she notes that she hasn't complimented them much, but that they have become quite strong (most of them are AA rank, two ranks below her), and is blinking back tears while telling them not to cry. | |
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Averted in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, where Nanoha and Fate are kind, caring, and understanding to their trainees. But when Teana goes too far in a mock match and puts lives at risk, Nanoha shows just why the fans call her the White Devil in a coldly spectacular, brutal style. It was all for the best, but considering her usual sweet and gentle demeanor was very unexpected and quite jarring (which perhaps was her intention). Then again, the cadets remark that even their normal training menu is exhausting. Fanworks often Flanderize Nanoha into this trope, even extending it to her parenting methods. The person who comes closest to being a Drill Sergeant Nasty is Vita, she doesn't yell at the new kids (barring that one time Teana almost caused a friendly-fire incident) but isn't as gentle or warm as Nanoha or Fate. She is actually playing this trope straight because while being cold and a bit unfriendly she really does have the kids' best interest in mind all the time. This trope is even discussed by her when she discusses with Nanoha why they are not stricter with the new cadets. Nanoha's reply is that the cadets are not unskilled amateurs but capable young soldiers who want to develop their abilities and that if there is enough time to yell at them it means there is enough time to teach them a little more by beating them in the Mock Battles. In the last episode of StrikerS, she notes that she hasn't complimented them much, but that they have become quite strong (most of them are AA rank, two ranks below her), and is blinking back tears while telling them not to cry. |
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In Zootopia, it's played as straight as they could in a Disney film, with the Police Academy instructor, a polar bear. She sounds berating and unforgiving during drills, shouting "You're dead!" every time a recruit slips; she's also very proud of her graduates, especially Judy once the bunny protagonist starts using her speed and agility to succeed rather than trying to muscle through the various tests. | |
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Mass Effect: Kaidan Alenko mentions that his biotic training involved a turian mercenary named Commander Vyrnnus, who brutally pushed all the trainees until Kaidan was forced to kill him in self-defense. Conversing with Ashley Williams in the first game reveals that she and Shepard had the same tough-as-nails drill instructor. An incidental conversation in the second game features an Alliance Gunnery Chief reaming out some recruits for not treating the main gun on their dreadnaught with enough respect. Though the guy's justified. As he said, the main gun of a dreadnaught is a weapon of mass destruction and real life does not have an Arbitrary Weapon Range. In the third game, Jack becomes one of these towards her biotic students at Grissom Academy (though when you get past the verbal abuse, she really does care about her students and would do anything to keep them safe. And judging from their interactions with her - calling out that she's "The Psychotic Biotic!", mocking her old battle catchphrases, cheering when she kisses a Shepard who romanced her, even the one who she picks on most saying "Screw you, ma'am!" with a smile in her voice - they don't really hate or fear her). Also, cut content has a pre-battle speech given to her students that is outright encouraging. It's a perfect time to be scared, but they can do this. |
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Tortall Universe: "Sarge" is this to the Queen's Riders. This aspect of his personality is so prevalent he got the nickname back in his slave days, well before he started training, for how strict he was with his fellow gladiators. He's actually a Gentle Giant, but Riders tend to have high casualty rates and a short training period, so he trains them as rigorously as possible to give them the best chance. Lord Wyldon from Protector of the Small is also an example, but his hardass methods can do more harm than good. Making the young pages ride horses instead of ponies quadruples the riding injuries, insisting that they tough out their injuries rather than use a magical healer makes training more difficult, and refusing to address bullying in his ranks leads to one squire becoming a rapist and another dying in his Ordeal of Knighthood. However, it should be noted that he doesn't punish for the sake of sadism - he's been wounded and toughed out said wounds because the alternative was the royal children dying, and he immediately notices Kel's fear of heights and takes steps to get her down to the ground safely. Kel is grateful for him pushing her so hard, as it prepared her for knighthood better, but this is less because of his training and more because Kel is even more stubborn and determined than he is, which he comes to respect. In the end, while it's acknowledged that while he had some good points, he points out that his methods had serious flaws, resulting in the above-mentioned rapist and death in the Chamber of Ordeal, and he consequently resigns. |
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The Goodies: Tim becomes one after joining the Salvation Army (It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context) in "Scoutrageous!". | |
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Sergeant Kung Boo of King Boo's army in the Super Mario Bros. fanfic Can a Boo Be Friends with a Human? Like practically all other sergeants, he has No Indoor Voice and believes in working his troops very hard. He very much respects Captain Boomerang though. | |
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Corporal Himmelstoss from All Quiet on the Western Front, possibly one of the earliest examples of the trope (it was written by a German veteran of World War I shortly after said war). A coward who dreads going to the front, his troops get their revenge. Himmelstoss is redeemed later in the book when one character meets him again after he's been wounded and placed on light duty with supply. Himmelstoss is there as the supply sergeant and has after seeing the elephant and realizing what the characters go through, turned into Sergeant Friendly, getting the character good food and even sneaking him some goodies on the side. | |
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In L.A. Noire, there's a flashback in the early part of the game where Phelps, the player character, joins the Marine Corps. A sergeant accosts Phelps and his companions, telling them that the Japanese would do the US a favor by killing them, and pointing out that the bus they were about to board is "for men who want to fight". Note that they were officer candidates, not enlisted. | |
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Pixelface: Kiki becomes the coach version of this when she starts teaching the other characters aerobics in "Bling My Droid". | |
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Vietcong had a series of training missions presided over a Drill Sergeant that would make R. Lee Emry envious. "Fucking cocksmokers" is a mild example of his vocabulary. | |
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Dad's Army: Complete subversion: the urbane, upper-class Sgt. Arthur Wilson, who is more inclined to politely ask his platoon if they'd "awfully mind forming three nice, neat rows if you please." Eccentric and dreamy he may be, but not only is he well-liked by his platoon but it's frequently established that he's far more competent than his ultra-eager and aggressive superior Captain Mainwaring, whose own drill sergeant-like efforts frequently result in chaos. Lance-Corporal Jones has tried his hand at this, but it's not his natural state. Here he is drilling one man, the elderly Private Godfrey: |
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Grisaia Series: Every military training inspector is this in the Grisaia universe, but Cpt. Garett stands out in The Labyrinth of Grisaia thanks to her violent approach, she doesn't carry around her "punishment rod" for nothing. The Fruit of Grisaia: Yuuji tends to slip into this, especially when he happens to do physical exercise with someone else. This behavior actually rubs off on Makina, who plays an even more vitriolic version than Yuuji. |
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Drill Instructor Barnes takes inspiration from Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, complete with a Shout-Out: | |
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The gym teacher in Medabots is a classic example, as we find when he's trapped in a blizzard and starts hallucinating that all the kids are calling out to him, crying about how their bodies have grown weak and flabby in his absence. This gives him the strength to break through the snow and reach help, engaging in a long, heroic rant about the noble art of being a gym teacher as he does so. | |
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Perhaps the granddaddy of all film characterizations of this trope is Lon Chaney, Sr.'s Sergeant O'Hara in the silent film Tell It to the Marines (1927). Beneath his tough-as-nails exterior, however, lies a Hidden Heart of Gold. | |
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In the crossover games, Tetsuya Tsurugi from Great Mazinger tends to be this, as well as South Burning from Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. | |
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Glee: Sue Sylvester, cheerleading coach from hell. "You think ''this'' is hard? Try being waterboarded! That's hard!" In the fourth season, her expy, the NYADA dance instructor Cassandra July. "Welcome to Dance 101, freshmen. Maybe two people in this class have what it takes to make it on Broadway. To the rest of you, thank you for paying for my loft in Soho. And if you don't have body dysmorphic disorder in a month, you're not trying hard enough." |
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"The Sergeant" on Lost episode 4.5 "The Constant": Drags Desmond Hume, the time-traveling Scotsman, from his bed, punishes the whole platoon for Des' tardiness in awaking by making them do push-ups in the rain, then punishes them further by forcing them to run laps around the muddy field. | |
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Inverted in M*A*S*H when a British officer Hawkeye berates for playing Drill Sergeant Nasty on his wounded men reveals he is deliberately using reverse psychology on them: Since no one would ever yell at a badly wounded man, they can't be all that badly hurt now, can they? Hawkeye is forced to eat humble pie on that one and later does the officer a favor in return. | |
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In later episodes of Noob, Saphir is seen asking her guild's new recruit to do menial tasks that include the inventory of the guild's vault, but also training him. It's, however, a little hard to tell if it's a milder version of the trope or because the guy not only skipped the guild's drastic recruitment procedure (that is basically Saphir deciding who can enter or not) but happens to be someone she hates. | |
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BattleTech characters occasionally talked about having this type of instructor in their military training, but they rarely showed up. The strongest examples existed among the Clans, where the warriors who were put in charge of training new warrior groups (known as sybkos) had very few restrictions on what they were allowed to do to their charges. They could and frequently did attack cadets and in some cases, deaths would result, since the Clans did not believe in conducting firing practice without live ammunition or holding back in a fight. | |
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In Up the Front, Groping becomes one after he becomes a Sergeant Major, bossing Lurk around even worse than he did when they were working under the Twithamptons: | |
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CollegeHumor: Inverted in the "Walking Contradictions" video, where characters behave the exact opposite from how you would expect them to. The Drill Sergeant shouts down his recruits, but by showering them with praise. | |
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And Captain S. Melly in Carry On England, who is certainly not thrilled to discover women under his command, and does his best to ensure that the experimental mixed unit fails. | |
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Gang Orca in My Hero Academia acts this way to the students in the Remidial Course, comparing them to feces and smacking them for not answering his questions right. He's also been voted as the Hero most likely to be mistaken for a Villain, so he's often called to play a villain in various exercises (such as during the Provisional Hero License Exam). This is just playing to character, though, as Gang Orca is a beloved Pro Hero (one of the best) and outside of the times he has to play nasty, he's much nicer. | |
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Sarge in Cars does this during the end credits montage, when he runs a boot camp for pampered SUVs. Fittingly enough, the boot camp vehicles are Hummers. He complains, "Yo! I've never been off-road!" a Take That! to the use of the gas-guzzling Hummer in suburban environments. | |
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Mulan. "Let's get down to business, to defeat the Huns./ Did they send me daughters, when I asked for sons?" Shang isn't that degrading in his language (and in a G-rated movie, he can't be), but he sure gives his conscripts grueling exercises and blunt assessments of their shortcomings. He's also noticeably proud when they gradually become more competent. | |
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Odd Squad: Coach O, the sole agent in the Athletics and Conflict Resolution department at Precinct 13579, speaks in a gruff and commanding voice and has absolutely No Indoor Voice whatsoever. Although he often gets his sports teams mixed up with regular Investigation agents who are in the midst of conflict due to his horrible memory, that doesn't make him any less threatening, and he manages to unnerve most everyone he interacts with. His debut episode, "Put Me In, Coach", has him putting Olympia, Otis, Orielle, and Oriele (trying to figure out who gets to deliver a power orb to the ruler of Cloud Town) through enough hell that they all collectively agree the entire ordeal is a nightmare. | |
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Dad's Army (1971): General Fullard has no time for Captain Mainwaring or his troops and finds any excuse to bark at them. | |
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Fred Colon's reminiscing about his unnamed drill sergeant in the novel Men at Arms; he was a classic example of the trope. The "he was right" aspect is subverted; Colon seems to be headed there when he describes seeing the sergeant afterwards, but instead he fondly describes helping beat up the sergeant in an alley. | |
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Ultimate Spider-Man: Having been a soldier, Cap is far more reluctant to see Spider-Man get involved in superheroics. Even after Nick Fury warms up on the idea, Cap remains stubborn as ever, considering Peter to be Just a Kid. After Peter takes a bullet for him and dies of his injuries, Steve ends up even more turned off by the idea of the younger Miles Morales taking up his mantle. Of course, when he tries to console Aunt May over Peter's death, she curses him because with Peter's personality and sense of responsibility there was no way he wouldn't use his powers. By refusing to train him and brushing him off, all he did was push Peter to try harder. |
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Bigwig in Watership Down when he wants to be. Yes, that's right. He's a rabbit and he pulls this off. Hazel actually criticizes him for going too far and making Hawkbit, Acorn and Speedwell feel threatened and biting one of them for arguing, but as Bigwig can also be a more kind-hearted Sergeant Rock when he wants to, he gets the job done one way or the other. | |
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Sergeant Hulka in Stripes, of course. Later in the film, it becomes very clear that Hulka is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. | |
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Alliser Thorne, armsmaster of the Night's Watch in A Song of Ice and Fire. He's not shown as particularly effective, and Jon ends up teaching his fellow recruits himself, as Thorne's "have amateurs repeatedly beaten up by experts while insulting them" method of training just left them bruised and resentful. Some of them he didn't even teach the proper way to hold a sword. His attempt to become Lord Commander was hopeless because no one who'd been taught by him — a fair amount, as he'd been on the Wall some sixteen years by that point — would ever support him. | |
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Captain Hina, upon realizing how few of her men can function in the lower oxygen of Skypiea in Stallion of the Line, orders all the ones who can move to sprint behind her along the beach, declaring that if she reaches the end of the beach and her men aren't within fifty paces of her, she will shackle them together and "make them do squats until their arms fall off". Though Hina gives her men extra incentive since, given she was sunbathing moments prior, she's running in front of them in a thong bikini. | |
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In the Gaunt's Ghosts novel The Armor of Contempt, Dalin and Merrt are subjected to a truly nasty drill sergeant Kexie, who is indeed sadistic. When he interprets Dalin's high scores as evidence of cheating and attacks him, only Merrt's derision stops him — and only Merrt's explicit willingness to be beaten for having derided him stops him from beating Merrt. This makes his eventual willingness to recognise them as proper Guardsmen all the more touching. | |
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Jarhead features Staff Sergeant Sykes, the Marine who whips Swoff's squad into shape after he decides he wants to join a group of snipers. He's actually a very competent soldier, more of a Sergeant Rock, but is not afraid of dishing out extremely harsh punishments, and so qualifies. A better example would be Swoff's first drill sergeant, D.I. Fitch, shown briefly at the beginning of the movie, who smashes his head into a chalkboard when he talks back. | |
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Fire & Blood: Ser Gareth Long, who is appointed as Master of Arms to Aegon III on the order of slimy bastard Unwin Peake. Like Thorne, he's a deconstruction - he's terrible at his job, actually killing some charges, and only the fact Aegon was king saved him from Gareth's retaliation when he mysteriously didn't take to the man's teaching style. So Long had him beat up his friend Gaemon instead. When Long was given the boot, it turned out Aegon could actually learn sword-fighting, and while he would never be a top-flight badass, he was capable if someone bothered to teach him properly (yay for the power of positive reinforcement). Of course, Gareth just hated Aegon anyhow, seeing him as a weakling, even joining in on an attempted coup because he hated him that much, but by this point, Aegon wasn't afraid of him anymore. | |
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During the fifth season of Laverne & Shirley, the girls went into the Army, and they contended with a tough-as-nails drill sergeant named Alvinia T. Plout. | |
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In Kamisama Kiss Tomoe is forced against his will into becoming a servant to Nanami. He is immediately disgusted by her lack of spiritual power and knowledge of the divine and supernatural worlds so he decides he is gonna shape her into a more worthy master. And considering Tomoe is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at the best of times, you can imagine how he goes about doing that. | |
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In Green Lanterns, Guy Gardner does this while putting Jessica Cruz through training. It riles up her anxiety so badly, she turns and slugs him in the face. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità : Like in canon, Germany is this. Japan calls out Germany for being too tough and harsh, implying this trope. Prussia references it by name. | |
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In The Knowledge, Mr Burgess "the Vampire" is a deadpan drill sergeant nasty, going to great lengths to make candidates feel uneasy. | |
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The sergeant major from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a subversion and a parody of this trope. After an initial dressing down he informs the soldiers that today they will be "marching up and down the square" and keeps threateningly asking them if they have anything better to do. When any of them states that they want to go do something else, he... gives them permission to go off and do it (while still shouting at them). After a few go off, he asks the remainder if they want to go to the pictures and then tells them to do so, before turning to the camera and saying "Bloody army, don't know what it's coming to!" before marching up and down the square by himself. | |
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Coach Oleander of Psychonauts follows this trope to a T. He yells at the students, he tells Raz to "drop and give me [number]", and his "basic braining" course is set up like a WW2 battlefield. If you go into his mind again after picking up the Cobweb Duster, you can uncover a long-since tucked away memory revealing that he was rejected by every single branch of the military (including the catering corps) and never actually served in combat. This memory is especially interesting as it's in such direct contrast with the (clearly fictitious) "war hero memory" he proudly showed off earlier. | |
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Bad Education: the school ends up with a South African PE master, Mr du Plessis. Among other things, he devises an assault course along South African Defence Forces lines. And wants to bring in Rottweiler and Ridgeback attack dogs to encourage the fat kids to move more quickly. | |
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Darkest Dungeon: A Man-at-Arms with the Abusive affliction will act like a particularly nasty drill sergeant. | |
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In Saki, Coach Kubo, faculty advisor for the Kazekoshi team, is this, in contrast to the majority of the mahjong club advisors in the series being relatively laid-back. After her team wins the first round of the prefecturals, Kubo slaps Mihoko, the best player on the team, for a minor mistake, and is prepared to do the same to Kana, the second best before Mihoko stops her and makes a heartfelt speech in defense of her. (It's indicated that this is not the first time Mihoko has done something like this, and her doing so is one reason her teammates adore her). However, when Kazekoshi ultimately loses the prefectural finals to the main characters, Kubo sees Kana coming in, desperately trying to hide her tears, and simply tells her to win the next time. | |
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Brooklyn T. Guy from SuperMarioLogan becomes this in the "Bowser Junior's Military School!" duology episodes when he serves as the sergeant of the Military School Bowser sends Junior to when Junior breaks a table with a cannonball from his old clown car. Brooklyn makes his students do push-ups whenever they talk back to him, makes them go through an obstacle course with barbed wire and land mines ten times a day, whips them with barbed wire, squirts hot sauce in their eyes, makes them clean a filthy toilet with a toothbrush, and makes them watch Big Hero 6. | |
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The god Khnum from Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God opens a class on the art of pottery (his specialty) and he does not hold back. His method of teaching pottery involves him screaming at his students and working them to the bone, and then having them smash their finished crafts and forcing them to start all over again, repeated over and over. By the end of his episode even he's exhausted by his method. | |
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Hoo boy, Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone goes beyond the call of duty with this in Cadet Kelly. | |
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At the beginning of The Sound of Music, Captain Von Trapp was one of these towards his children and household, because too many things such as singing and dancing reminded him of his deceased wife. Fortunately, with the help of Maria and his children, he was able to get over it. | |
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Templar and Illuminati players find themselves on the receiving end of these during their training period in The Secret World. The Templar instructor, Brigadier Lethe, is a classic hardass veteran with a limp and a missing eye and gives you a very rough and thorough pep-talk on how your powers do not make you The Chosen One, before ordering you to test your new powers on a gaggle of chained-up demons. By contrast, Illuminati Director De La Guardia is astonishingly soft-spoken, but even less tolerant of failure: he flat-out warns you that he's not above shooting recruits who screw up on his watch, and given that players are functionally immortal... | |
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Ender's Game: Subverted: upon leaving for the military academy, the kids encounter a character like this, and Genre Savvy Ender assumes that it will be like in movies where the drill sergeant makes his life hell, but they all become friends in the end. Instead, the sergeant character actually favors Ender tremendously, causing him to become alienated from the other cadets. Ender himself is said to be brutal when dealing with groups (thus fitting the trope) but not when working with individuals. |
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Kimberley is this for Rookie Rangers Rocky, Aisha, and Adam in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Boom! Studios). It's suggested that she's doing this to hide losing Trini, Zack, and Jason to their "Peace Conference". | |
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This actually gets carried over to Super Robot Wars W, where he puts that to good use by equipping them with Bonta-Kuns and siccing them on some Mazinger Z enemies. | |
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In Neverwinter Nights, the combat instructor in the tutorial serves as one, insisting that the recruits call him "sir". No one else, not even the more specialized combat trainers, behaves in this manner. | |
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Parodied in Saturday Night Live by Will Ferrell. Despite maintaining his harsh tone of voice, he still talks about what to do about his failing marriage and other things. In the end, he tells his cadets that he loves them. | |
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The unnamed drill sergeant in Forrest Gump, who spends the entirety of his screen time shouting. He's actually a subversion since, despite his aggressive and confrontational mannerisms, most of what he says is actually positive reinforcement due to Forrest being submissive and not questioning his authority. | |
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Sgt. Stomp in The Intimates, though he's severely emotionally damaged from his days as a superhero. Interestingly, during the Vietnam conflict, he was a conscientious objector and was stripped of his rank for three years. He also sees more value in yoga than most examples would. | |
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Game of Thrones: Alliser Thorne pushes his recruits with harsh training and constant insults, believing himself to be this. However, he also deconstructs the trope by taking much more pleasure in bullying his charges than he does from seeing them improve, making him a plain sadist as well. | |
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Tomahawk: Cannonball served this role in training the Rangers, and even in the field he's always barking at them like mad. | |
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X-Men: The Last Stand: R. Lee Ermey makes an appearance, and who else would he be? | |
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The Babylon 5 second season episode "Gropos" features a Sergeant Major who's commanding actual troops, not recruits, yet still acts like this. At least as far as is possible on a family-friendly show. | |
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In The Waltons, Jason overhears Mary Ellen scolding John Curtis. He soon realizes that she is firm with him because she cares. As a Sergeant in the Army, he is inspired to stop coddling the recruits under him. Being tougher on them would be better for them in the long run. Result, this trope. | |
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Miss Rockbottom from FoxTrot is Paige's Physical Education teacher. Despite appearing to be somewhat overweight herself, she is depicted as being very strict, once assigning more than 500 laps around the school track. | |
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In "Trapped in Jedi Academy", one story of Al Bruno III's Binder of Shame, Psycho Dave, Killer Game Master extraordinaire, turns Yoda into one of these. | |
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The movie Major Payne, with a kill-happy Special Forces Major playing drill sergeant to a bunch of private military school misfits. The movie addresses the various tropes of him learning to be kind and somewhat tolerant of the limits of those under his command... without buying into them utterly and getting his class to shape up and show some discipline. He seems to have found the perfect balance by the beginning of the next semester, as shown at the end of the film when he has the respect of (and respects) the returning students, but gleefully tortures the newest kid to show up in his class, who apparently thinks being blind allows him to be a jackass to his teacher. | |
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Lal Mirch from Reborn! (2004), who is considered one of the harshest and toughest of trainers (at least, what Tsuna and Gokudera think — which probably means a lot, considering that they've been through Reborn's training...) Also, Colonello, who also wears an army outfit. It makes sense that both he and Lal Mirch would be extremely tough and strict drill sergeants, considering they hung out together ever since they were babies. |
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The Irish sergeant in Glory, Sgt. Major Mulcahy. Very well portrayed by John Finn. He is a racist, but a soldier more, and he doesn't want them to be killed because of unpreparedness. | |
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Call of Duty: Ghosts has a DLC available where you can have R. Lee Ermey as your announcer. Yes...that one. | |
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You know the commissars mentioned on the Warhammer 40,000 tab just above? The ones who keep soldiers in line through sheer terror? With that in mind, just try to imagine how scary the Drill Abbots who train commissars are. They're arms training staff at the Schola Progenium, making them the setting's equivalent to gym teacher at a Boarding School of Horrors. | |
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In an example of the British variant, Sergeant Major Williams in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum, well known for his catchphrase of asking a leading question, then screaming "SHUT UP!" An episode in which Williams's will was read revealed that he too was only hard on the squad for their own good, and he thought they were all "grand lads, especially little Lofty". | |
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Get Some In! features Tony Selby as Corporal Marsh, a Royal Air Force drill instructor who takes considerable pleasure in the power he has over the National Service recruits under his command, and often goes beyond trying to whip them into good soldiers and torments them purely for his own amusement. In a series of Establishing Character Moments at the beginning of the first episode, he performs a "snap hygiene inspection" of a recruit's tea mug, which he drops to the ground and breaks after finding it unsatisfactory, and then orders a pair of recruits carrying a heavy pan of soup across the camp to pick up the pace until they drop the pan and spill its contents. | |
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Played with in Freaks and Geeks — to the athletically-inept geeks, the Coach seems like one of these, but what we see of him in his off-time or when he's not on the field indicates that he's actually a reasonably nice guy. | |
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Downplayed in Beetle Bailey: Sarge appears as a tough and mean jerk of a sergeant, but he doesn't succeed at whipping his men into shape. Also, Sarge has a variety of weaknesses himself that Beetle uses to get under his skin. | |
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The Soldier of Team Fortress 2 follows this trope as well, but also has the bonus of being utterly psychotic, with his backstory saying that he ran around Europe killing Nazis for years AFTER World War II. For extra hilarity, he's legally been a civilian his entire life. The one time we do see him training a group of "soldiers", he's lecturing the severed heads of his enemies about Sun Tzu, except his grasp of history leaves much to be desired. He also tries some of this briefly in Meet the Sandvich. He's lecturing the RED Heavy for not breaking his spine properly. The Scout - and likely others - parody this trope when dominating the Soldier. One example is the Scout telling him to "drop dead and give me twenty". |
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Campfire Stories: Zach was in the Army at a time where soldiers returning from leave were put through drug screens, just to be sure. The problem is that Zach has a shy bladder, and his inability to urinate on demand resulted in a furious drill sergeant who, in Zach's own words, was running around the room with a baseball bat, breaking things and screaming. He considers it the most terrifying experience of his life, even above being bombarded with mortars while trapped in a porta-potty in Iraq. Of course, Mike, a Marine, finds this hilarious. | |
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Lions & Liars: Eric, one of the counselors at Camp Omigoshee, acts this way. He shouts orders at the campers and blows a whistle at them. | |
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Generally averted in the Call of Duty series; the only officer from a training level in the series that comes close to this is Commissar Letlev of Call of Duty 2, who will shoot you if you don't do what he tells you when he tells you. At the beginning of Modern Warfare, Captain Price is a mild version of this as Soap goes through the SAS killhouse. It doesn't last past the first mission. |
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Asterix and Obelix meet one when they're in Germania and disguised as Goths. They met two roman versions in Asterix the Legionnaire, who were inclined to play the trope straight. Asterix and Obelix manage to break them by taking them literally, and by using their magic strength. In the end, the two centurions actually soften up and gave in. | |
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Beachhead, although little more than a background character in the Marvel comic series, became this in G.I. Joe (Devil's Due) series when assigned to train simple grunt Greenshirts. At one point, he made a recruit clean the barracks not with a toothbrush but with a POTATO. Now that's a new level of Drill Sergeant Nasty... | |
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Remembrance of the Fallen: Eleya again, this time to two of her underclassmen at Starfleet Academy that she's been assigned to tutor when Tia complains that part of the problem is Sobaru can't sit still. | |
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Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley (played by Louis Gossett Jr.) in An Officer and a Gentleman. "Only two things come from Oklahoma: steers and queers. And I don't see no horns, boy." | |
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El Conquistador: Almost every teacher in the Calmécac (the Aztec High School, actually a Deadly Training Area) behaves this way. It's only expected that the bravest and boldest of all people survives the school. | |
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Played with in Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It". While it is a song that rebels against authority, towards the end, Dee Snider starts doing a DSN impression while the chorus is repeated, complete with "now drop and give me 20!" It creates a kind of paradoxical humor - using authority to rebel against authority. | |
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Inverted in the JAG episode "Boot", where the nasty sergeant, Staff Sergeant Carrington, is a woman (played by Julie Caitlin Brown) training female Marine recruits at Parris Island. When Harm went undercover as a Marine Gunnery Sergeant in "Force Recon", R. Lee Ermey once again played the role to whip him into shape. |
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Biloxi Blues makes the drill sergeant even more intimidating by sticking Christopher Walken in the role. He's also legitimately and dangerously insane, unlike most of the examples of this trope, who are just pretending to be a little nuts to intimidate their recruits. On "Inside the Actors Studio" Matthew Broderick said when he played the part earlier on the stage, Will Sadler the actor playing the sergeant as an R. Lee Ermey-style drill instructor, always yelled. When they did the movie and they cast Walken, he would say his lines in a much slower and oddly cadenced manner, which was actually scarier! | |
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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake has McDonell Benedict Miller acting as a drill sergeant for FOXHOUND, and it is heavily implied in his bio that he is quite strict and harsh with his trainees, what, with his nickname "Hell Master" and all that. Metal Gear Online also has some of the trainers for various soldiers in training ops behaving in a somewhat similar manner to drill sergeants. In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, it turns out that the Militaires Sans Frontieres has their own Drill Sergeant, and just like the trope, he is quite sharp-tongued and is even willing to sarcastically suggest that the trainees commit suicide immediately if they simply stand around like an idiot when an enemy is nearby to drive home the importance of changing positions. He's even like this to Big Boss when he participates in the training regimens, although the overall tone indicates more respect than usual.It's heavily implied that this sergeant will go on to become Venom Snake. | |
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Billy Connolly (a former Parachute Regiment soldier, so he would know), does a brief but hilarious turn as a drill sergeant in The Last Samurai. Also notable because his character (Sergeant Gant) is not usually a drill sergeant but a Sergeant Rock who has adapted to doing this job out of circumstances. | |
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As much as Sergeant Dygalo from 9th Company epitomises this trope, he is also a more sympathetic example, as we gradually learn that his attitude is partially an example of a Zero-Approval Gambit: He is trying to forge the group into a Band of Brothers because he is a Veteran Instructor who has seen just how brutal the Afghan war has been. As such, he has a serious case of The Chains of Commanding and is terrified that the boys he is sending off to war will not make it out. He also doesn't tolerate bullying among the ranks, though he will freely bully them himself. | |
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The Agony Booth': Mr. Mendo dons the Smokey Bear hat sometimes... | |
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Regimental Sergeant-Major Sandy Young in the movie The Wild Geese, who, as he is training mercenaries, is not tied down by regulation. In the middle of a demanding training session, he kicks the medic and yells, "You screaming faggot, move it before I sew up your arsehole!" | |
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In the Sharpe series, Sharpe's enemy Sergeant Hakeswill is one, but does not have any of the positive aspects. Sharpe himself also sometimes acts like one, very easily forgetting he's an officer when training the men, as he was actually promoted from the ranks. There's also the virulently anti-Irish Sergeant Lynch, who doesn't make it to the end of the book. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw had Greg’s soccer coach, Coach Litch, whom Greg describes as the worst out of all the coaches (of course, Greg and his teammates’ shenanigans weren’t helping much). In fact, he’s the reason Rodrick doesn’t do sports anymore. | |
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Justice League of Equestria: Rainbow Dash's mother Firefly is this to the Wonderbolts (possibly where Spitfire got it from). Kilowag is this for the Green Lantern Corps, as per canon. Shining Armor isn't impressed. |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie: Beachhead is put in charge of a squad of "Rawhides", new recruits still wet behind the ears. General Hawk even points out that he's not worried about the Rawhides surviving combat because "first they need to survive Beachhead." He bawls them out in full Drill Sergeant Nasty mode, wanting a "stone-cold righteous attention!" Shockingly, he lets one of the recruits get away with calling him "sweetheart" with only a mild admonishing. He is also unimpressed with the Rawhides' creative ways of beating his tests (using a drainpipe to sneak past an obstacle course, using a dog to sniff out a practice bomb), calling them reckless and holding them back from battle (where such thinking could easily get them killed). After screwing up spectacularly, Falcon is sent to the Slaughterhouse to be straightened out by Sgt Slaughter. The following quotes should sum up how Slaughter handles folks like Falcon quite nicely. |
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Colonel Tigh on Battlestar Galactica. It's implied that the Colonial militia, or at least Galactica, follows the classic XO/CO arrangement where everyone is terrified of the executive officer and loves the commanding officer. | |
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The film Mr. Woodcock is about what happens when one of these starts dating the mom of one of the students he used to harass in grade school. | |
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Coach John from Big Nate is the pure epitome of this. | |
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The football coach played by Robert Patrick in The Faculty, at least before he gets mind-controlled by aliens. Afterwards, he's just plain creepy. | |
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Sergeant Silverback in Power Rangers S.P.D. is this and a gorilla. | |
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Serial Killing 4 Dummys: Mr. Grimaldi is the gym coach version: ex-military from the Deep South who treats his students like they are new recruits in boot camp. He is also a Serial Killer. | |
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Batou acts like this when training some new recruits for Section 9 in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Second Gig. This results in failing all the new recruits out because he's worried about what will happen to the Section 9's quality if he's too lenient and also worried about bringing in someone who might get killed if they're not up to the job. After discussing things with the Major, he decides that he was too harsh on them and gives the recruits another chance. | |
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The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Rotorstorm received quite a bit of mental scarring from his drill sergeant, Jetstream. Jetstream's verbal browbeating eventually turned into actual beatings, violently assaulting the new recruit at various unprovoked points. This continued for an indeterminate amount of time until he was beaten into unconsciousness once, placed into a CR chamber, and awoke to find Jetstream had left, moved to a different position. Years later Rotorstorm received a medal for his valor and he saw his old instructor, having changed his name back to Whirl, sitting in the front row of his ceremony, applauding and cheering the loudest. | |
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Ken has taken up this role in some No Need for Bushido strips. | |
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Sergeant Adib Julian and Company Sergeant Major Eva Kosutic in the Prince Roger series. Julian terrorizes the alien sepoys he's trying to bring up to 30th-Century standards, and Kosutic terrorizes Prince Roger himself. | |
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Coach Jillian "Jillybean" Callahan in Tales of MU, who teaches students at Magisterius University how to fight either because she was traumatized by the sight of an untrained mage caught by Ogres during the last big war or because she likes being able to legally inflict pain and injuries on college kids. Possibly both. | |
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The sports mistress at the Quirm College for Young Ladies in Soul Music is Iron Lily, who is rumoured to lift weights with her teeth and who runs down the touchline screaming "Get some ball, you bunch of soft nellies!" When Susan meets a Valkyrie, she's struck by the resemblance. | |
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Astro City: One appears in the Pyramid training camp that Royal infiltrates in "The Dark Age". He even sports a 'Smokey the Bear' hat. Sticks had one of these back on Gorilla Mountain. |
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One RWBY Chibi skit features Nora as this, as she forces Ruby, Blake, and Yang through rather extensive exercises — as a warm-up before the real workout, a practice that put Pyrrha's arm in a sling, Ren in a neck brace and arm sling, and Jaune in a body-cast. | |
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Carry On, Sergeant: Sergeant Grimshawe is a downplayed example of this, trying calmer methods than usual in what is going to be his last squad. Corporal Copping fits the role to a tee, however. | |
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Whiplash features a variation - Terence Fletcher definitely qualifies and has a vocabulary of vicious insults and physical intimidation methods to rival many of the military examples above, but he's a band director, not a coach or drill sergeant. His hostilities eventually drive one former ace student to suicide. Unlike many of the other examples on this list, Fletcher is shown to be a vicious bully and the main villain of the film. | |
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Mother Brainstorm in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has traits of this. For one example, she commands her daughter Sheila to give her 20 and chastises her when she does so in only 27 seconds. | |
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Shortland Street did this with a psychotic rugby coach in 2009.note This is a soap from New Zealand. New Zealand's national rugby side is frequently first or second-placed in the world. They didn't get that way by being soft in either training or play. | |
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The gamebook The Rings of Saturn: The astronaut academy has this in the form of sergeant Padgett. If you screw something up, he'll send you off to train in an underwater base under a uplifted telepathic dolphin who is even harsher, and not a playful nice dolphin. | |
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Beau Geste: Sergeant Lejaune. In his case, he is a villain and indifferent to "doing it for their own good". Lejaune positively pales in comparison to "Sergeant-Major Suicide-Maker" ("a half-mad bully whose monomania was driving men to suicide") from some of P.C. Wren's other Foreign Legion stories, and quite possibly the worst example here. |
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In the season 7 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Get It Done", Kennedy, the most senior of the potentials and who has received substantial training from her watcher, has taken up this role with the others, shouting at one of them, Chloe, and calling her a "maggot" when she does her steps wrong; then as an aside she jokes to Buffy how cool it was that she got to call somebody a "maggot". The First drives Chloe to suicide that night, and then taunts Kennedy by implying that the "maggot" insult led to the suicide. Buffy herself fared little better. When a reformed Faith comes to town, she makes no effort to horn in on the gig but quickly demonstrates that Buffy is a failure as a leader. In fact, her reaction to Chloe's suicide could have come right from the Full Metal Jacket script. |
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The Riftwar Cycle: Sergeant Major Robert De Longueville in the Serpentwar Saga. His favorite gig was to threaten recruits. Given that his recruits were taken exclusively from people who had been sentenced to death or several years of hard labor, he really did have the authority to do it, too. | |
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Coach Kashiwaba in Touch (1981). Due to his bitterness at being unfairly kicked off the Meisei baseball team over 20 years ago, he seeks to break his former sempais' hearts by breaking the current team's spirit. | |
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The Phys Ed teacher in Shakugan no Shana. Subverted: not only does his attempt to break Shana fail miserably, she ends up breaking him. | |
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The Fruit of Grisaia: Yuuji tends to slip into this, especially when he happens to do physical exercise with someone else. This behavior actually rubs off on Makina, who plays an even more vitriolic version than Yuuji. | |
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Sgt. McGillicuddy in The Three Stooges short "Half-Shot Shooters" - sadistic even by Stooge Jerkass standards. At one point, he tells the boys to put their heads in a sink full of water, then fires a gun into the sink, giving the boys temporary hearing loss. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In I, Jedi, Corran confronts Luke, feeling that a lack of discipline led to Kyp Durron falling to the dark side of the Force, and that Luke was not doing enough to instill a sense of discipline in his students. Luke asks Corran if he should have some New Republic drill instructors help with training. In the short story "The Stele Chronicles", the character Marek Stele and other Imperial recruites are trained by Stormtrooper Senior Master Sergeant Jona T. Stark. |
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Evangeline A.K. McDowell from Negima! Magister Negi Magi She can be convinced, with a lot of effort, to instruct someone in magecraft and/or combat. She cannot be convinced to be gentle about it. On the bright side, those who survive her training definitely gain the benefits. | |
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The teen show California Dreams features a character named MacBride, Sergeant MacBride. United States Marine Corps. A slight subversion in that she's female and teaching a cooking class "the way we do it in the corps", but she was black so I guess it's a wash. | |
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MartÃn Fierro: Subverted by the Argentinian Army. Every official is very nasty, and the conscripts are tortured continuously, but the protagonist denounces the instructors the Army assigned did not know how to train soldiers. Justified because the Army does not have any interest in training the conscripts: they are there as mere Cannon Fodder and to work as Indentured Servants. Later on, the trope is deconstructed: Because Fierro is a conscript who get tortured but never trained properly, he learns to kill in a battle, so he learns that Violence is the Only Option and Murder Is the Best Solution to all his problems. When he becomes a Dangerous Deserter, he commits a lot of civilian murders. | |
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Republic Commando Series: The training sergeants Kal Skirata and Walon Vau both seem this way at times. Kal actually has a soft spot for "his boys", and is much kinder to them whenever he can be, but he can put on the role when he has to. Walon Vau, on the other hand... when the clones trade stories, the ones involving Vau are not the kind that gets laughter. | |
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Every military training inspector is this in the Grisaia universe, but Cpt. Garett stands out in The Labyrinth of Grisaia thanks to her violent approach, she doesn't carry around her "punishment rod" for nothing. | |
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Mage: The Awakening: The drill sergeant speech of the Adamantine Arrow order of warrior-mages is a... unique variant of this approach. The Arrow drill instructor is said to have had his own Drill Sergeant Nasty when he joined the army, who constantly abused him and tried to goad him into quitting. This annoyed him so much that it caused him to Awaken just as the sergeant was asking if he could beat the lowest time on the obstacle course. The mage then proceeded to beat the best time... while dragging the drill sergeant along behind him. |
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In Rio 2, Jewel's father Eduardo acts like this when coaching Blu in the ways of the wild. | |
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Bill the Galactic Hero has Deathwish Drang who plays this trope to the letter, with pronounced tusks no less. It is later revealed that Drang is a trained psychologist and that the act is a result of decades of research (and his tusks are fake). | |
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Sgt. Hiles in The Frighteners is a ghostly Expy of Sgt. Hartman. Guess who plays him? | |
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Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes in the film Platoon is initially presented as one of these. It turns out though that he is much worse. | |
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Hiko Seijuro of the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu in Rurouni Kenshin, while a master of a sword-style which is taught only one-on-one, manages to deal such training to the young Kenshin Himura (who will grow up to be the most feared assassin in the Bakumatsu, Hitokiri Battousai). Kenshin mentions that standard training from him consists of being repeatedly hit with the technique of the day until he learns to duplicate it, after which he gets repeatedly hit with the counter for that technique until he learns that, and so on. It doesn't help that his catchphrase is: | |
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In Cells at Work!, Megakaryocyte is depicted as this towards the Platelets, who are, in essence, her children. It's somewhat justified in that the Platelet's job (closing wounds as fast as possible) is vital to the body's survival. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Learning Curve", Lt. Tuvok is put in charge of a group of Maquis who won't integrate with the crew, and suddenly turns into Drill Sergeant Nasty (including expecting one of them to degauss the transporter pads with a hand-held device; the 24th-century version of scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush). The real Drill Sergeant Nasty in the episode is actually Chakotay. The crewmen that Tuvok is training opt to leave mid-drill as Tuvok's logical Vulcan approach does little to enforce compliance. When one of them says to Chakotay that "There's the Starfleet way, and there's the Maquis way," Chakotay sucker punches him. | |
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In Necessary to Win, Takako Kubo, of Saki, plays it straight as Black Forest's tankery coach, although it is revealed that she disagrees with her teacher, Shiho Nishizumi, over certain matters; while Shiho would let those who don't live up to her standards flunk out, Takako is willing to do what it takes to whip her students into shape, even corporeal punishment. Averted with the JGSDF instructor Ami, who teaches tankery to Oarai while taking their status as high school students into account, and has had a falling out with Takako over her methods of discipline. | |
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On How I Met Your Mother, Marshall rather unexpectedly becomes this after agreeing to coach the basketball team at Lily's school. At one point, he's actually throwing the basketball at kindergarteners. | |
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Another whitelighter, Natalie, briefly serves as this in the Charmed episode; "Blinded by the Whitelighter" for the sisters when she prepares them for battle. Unlike Leo, she refuses to coddle them, leading them to half-jokingly suggest vanquishing her at one point. | |
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Temporary warden Miss Pinch in one episode of The Slammer. | |
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Master Chief Billy Sunday, Navy Diving Instructor from Men of Honor. You may be thinking of a preacher by the same name, but that guy worked for God. He IS God! His student goes on to become a Sergeant Rock. The racist commanding officer in the film treats Brashear like dirt simply for being black. He goes out of his way to humiliate Brashear in front of the other divers, who get a kick out of it (they're all white, and it's 1948). | |
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Eyeshield 21: The team from the Republic of Militaria. "Worm! American football is war, son, and don't you forget it! Now get out of my sight before I smack that smile off your face!" Especially "Sgt." Gomery, who will knock your freaking teeth out if he thinks you aren't being serious enough. Hiruma has shades of this, as does Megu, the manager of the Chameleons. |
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A rather amusing example from Frasier. Frasier starts dating a gym teacher, which causes him to reminisce about his own Drill Sergeant Nasty gym teacher (played by Bob Hoskins). Frasier then finds out, to his horror, his girlfriend is one as well, when he sees her pushing an overweight girl to climb a rope. He spends most of the rest of the episode imagining her as his gym teacher. Eventually, he talks to her about his problem, and she admits that she can be hard sometimes but that she has the best intentions. Frasier then tells her about his gym teacher and the fact that he could never do a single push-up. She then starts picturing him as the girl who couldn't climb the rope. | |
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A minion in Hearthstone, who pushes your other minions into fighting harder (read: gives a minion +2 attack for a turn). Its quotes are based on Dives. | |
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C.P.O. Bull in The Navy Lark episode set during Phillip's naval training. Well, at least according to Phillip's recollection anyway... | |
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Such a character features in an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, during the "Witch's Exam" arc. Sabrina does end up scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush, although she does use minor magical assistance in moving said toothbrush. | |
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An early episode of Pokémon: The Original Series guest-stars a trainer named AJ who trains Pokémon in this manner, which pisses Ash off—until he sees that AJ really does care for his 'mons. | |
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Turnip 28: The flavour text for the Crutch Character faction, Strangling Harry's Wretched Recruits, has Harry call the troops he's training "disgusting maggots," "appalling, pathetic excuses for boils," "newly slapped arses," "fools in a sack," and "right 'orrible little shits." He is specifically referred to as a sergeant. | |
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Silithis Predat in Telepath Tactics, as can be seen in the tutorial mission. She is extremely harsh and disparaging, and constantly insults Emma with a word bordering on a racial slur. This breeds resentment from Emma, and the tribe's chieftain points out that it makes Silithis unsuited to lead. She grows out of it when she joins Emma's army later in the story. | |
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Averted in the America's Army games, where the NPC Drill Sergeants, while occasionally deadpan snarkers, are generally pretty tame. Makes sense since the games are essentially recruiting tools and wouldn't work very well if foul-mouthed, abusive Drill Sergeants dissuaded prospective recruits from signing up. Supposedly it's possible to reprogram to this though. | |
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Carrie (1976): The gym teacher Miss Collins is portrayed as a Reasonable Authority Figure otherwise, especially when she's dealing with Carrie, but it's a wholly different story when she's punishing the girls who viciously bullied Carrie in the school showers. As punishment for their actions, she subjects them to a week's detention with her after school, under threat of being barred from the prom (which is what she originally wanted to do before the principal vetoed it) if they refuse. There, she proceeds to subject them to an hour of boot camp every day, which eventually causes the Alpha Bitch Chris to slap her. | |
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Not Always Working gives us this story from Germany. Not only does the DI send two recruits for a piece of equipment that weighs over 250 lbs. (which they then carried 700 meters), he then berates them for bringing the "small" one. | |
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Melissa Mao takes care of this role in Super Robot Wars Judgment and Super Robot Wars W, going so far as to replace Bright Noa with her own slap (at least, on Calvina's route). | |
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The Wrong Reflection: Eleya, a former Bajoran Militia NCO, shuts up Dal Kanril by doing her best drill instructor Death Glare, "the look that says, I don't give a flying phekk if you're Shakaar Edon himself; as far as I'm concerned you're just another brainless boot who can't tell which end of a combat knife goes into the other guy." Dal Kanril automatically snaps to attention despite herself, and later mentions she felt like she was back in basic training. | |
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The killer of the week in the Cold Case episode "Shore Leave". | |
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In Old Man's War, the training sergeant is a heavily self-aware version of this trope. He says he actually does hate his recruits, as well. | |
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In Starship Troopers, Sergeant Zim appears at first to fit this trope. But unlike in the movie, it turns out that Zim is really the "Tough Love" variety, and trains his men hard only because he deeply worries and cares for them.note Worth noting: Robert Heinlein himself served in the U.S. Navy before becoming famous as a science fiction author, and thus would have had plenty of firsthand experience of the techniques used by naval DIs. It is also stated that as soon as most of the recruits who couldn't hack it were gone, the DIs became even more demanding but far less nasty. | |
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