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Elites Are More Glamorous

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Elites Are More Glamorous	comment	Military fiction will generally focus on units considered elite in some fashion, even if it is obvious that the regular units found in the same battle are just as much in the thick of it. Even in non-military fiction, if a film follows a character who is ex-military, 9 times out of 10 he'll have been "a marine" rather than army infantry or anything else. This is particularly common in fiction set in World War II: If it is a US unit that is in focus, it is more likely to be Airborne, Marine Corps or Rangers than standard Army. British units are more likely to be SAS or Paras (though curiously enough, the similarly exclusive — and more relatable to US audiences — Royal Marines don't get much love). German foes, even late in the war when their quality units were mostly destroyed, are more likely to be SS Panzer divisions rather than poorly-trained and equipped Volkssturm. Presumably happens because of the Rule of Cool: famous units and battles are simply more "special". Also, since special forces units consists of better trained soldiers with high qualifications and (usually) superior equipment, it's generally more believable for them to succeed. For works based on Real Life, this focus can simply reflect historical Truth in Television, as is the case with Black Hawk Down and Band of Brothers. Insofar as elite forces have a smaller average unit size and this is a desirable situation in a fictional work, that's another reason for this trope. Interestingly, the writers often have no idea what the unit designations actually refer to. "Army Ranger," "Navy SEALs," "Special Forces," and "Green Berets" are all conflated into generic commandos (most often referred to as 'operators' or 'shooters') with overlapping roles. Of course there is a certain amount of overlap, but in general terms these kinds of units are divided into two camps: Elite regular formations (Rangers and Royal Marines for example) who are highly trained regular soldiers; and Special Forces (SEALs, Green Berets, SAS etc) who operate in small teams and are brought in for specific missions. The same is applicable to entire branches of the armed forces: in past, chariots were more glamorous than everyone else, then cavalry, especially heavy knights, hussars and cuirassiers. With the introduction of aerial warfare, the saddle of glory promptly turned into the fighter pilot's seat. For when the elites of society are more glamorous, see The Beautiful Elite. If the whole army is more glamorous than their assumed adversaries, see Elite Army. See The Modern-Day Rambo for modern-day Special Forces units who are likely to be this trope.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_11028b7e	comment	The Elite Squad: a movie about Rio de Janeiro's elite squad of military police special forces.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_110d4471	comment	Predator: Dutch and his entire team. We're never told what their unit or service branch are. However, they're considered so skilled that their CIA handler was willing to lie to them about the nature of the mission he was recruiting them for, feeling that they were the only unit good enough to handle it.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_14a0ad11	comment	Gang Related: Lead character Ryan was an Army Ranger. The Metas, a Mexican cartel, recruit soldiers from Mexico's special forces as well. They are the main characters to get military backgrounds.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_1a1a594f	comment	Battlefield: Battlefield 2 has a Special Forces class for each of the playable factions, and even a Special Forces expansion pack which features the US Navy SEALs, Russian Spetznaz, British SAS, and MEC Special Forces. Hilariously averted in Battlefield: Bad Company, where the cast is part of the Redshirt Army and knows it, once lampshading that they're going into an important but dangerous mission first just to see how dangerous it is, because the elites cost more money to train and are thus "too expensive to waste." Subverted in Bad Company 2 when Sweetwater insists the squad be the ones to tackle the villain's scheme, not trusting the spec-ops guys and their "pussy-ass heartbeat monitors" to get the job done. The boys of B-Company succeed.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_1da51dad	comment	In his political treatise The Prince, NiccolÃ² Machiavelli complains bitterly about the Italian system of relying on mercenaries for war. One of his specific criticisms was that your average Italian mercenary group was almost entirely cavalry, because mounted soldiers were perceived as more elite. The fact that they could charge more for cavalry probably helped too.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_2149bc5	comment	Apocalypse Now follows the journey of Captain Willard (505th of 173rd Airborne Brigade and assigned to MACV-SOG, a classified United States Special Operations Forces unit which conducted ops in Vietnam) on a military-sanctioned assassination mission (and not his first). He does depend on a group of enlisted Navy sailors to get the job done however, and is escorted up the Nung River by Colonel Kilgore of the 1st Squadron of the 9th Air Cavalry.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_22ae1772	comment	Eventually played completely straight in Valkyria Chronicles 4, where the main characters' unit of E Platoon is part of the legendary Ranger Battalion of the Edinburgh Army. Belonging to the 101st Edinburgh Division, they are literally a fictional version of the 101st Airborne Division.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_230b3240	comment	Jack Ryan: Sometimes played straight, sometimes averted. The Hunt for Red October: Marko Ramius, the captain of the titular ship, is universally acknowledged as the best submarine officer the Soviet navy has ever had. The officers he's trained, by extension, are considered the service's best and brightest and have come to dominate it over the course of twenty years as more and more of them rise to command positions. This doesn't sit well with everybody, as critics note that this clique is dangerously close to being a personality cult and that allowing it to develop runs explicitly against Communist Party policy. It turns out the Party was right for once, as Ramius and his entirely handpicked senior crew end up defecting to the United States with the Soviet Navy's most advanced submarine. Averted in Clear and Present Danger. All of the men recruited by the CIA to the secret operation against the Colombian cartels are very well-trained and qualified for their job, but most of them aren't drawn from existing elite special forces units, but more ordinary light infantry units. This is because special ops units form such a small and tight-knit subsection of the U.S. military, meaning that people would notice if too many of them were drawn from their posts at the same time. Both played straight and averted in Executive Orders. Two of the U.S. Army units that fight off the UIR invasion in the Second Persian Gulf War are the best armored cavalry units in the service. The third, however, is a National Guard unit, albeit one that's been trained by the other two. Played entirely straight in Rainbow Six. Rainbow is a multinational (mostly NATO) counterterrorist team whose members are drawn from what are already the best special forces, intelligence, or police counterterrorism units of their respective countries. These include Navy SEALs and Army Rangers from the U.S, SAS from the U.K, DGSE from France, and GSG-9 from Germany. In a bit of irony, Rainbow's elite status causes some resentment from SOCOM, the U.S.'s own special operations command, whose general feels that it's poaching on what's supposed to be his turf. In The Bear and the Dragon, Rainbow, having proven itself decisively in the previous book, is now assigned to the newly allied Russian military, to help bring their own Spetznaz forces up to par. The Russians are already extremely competent, and towards the end of the book, the two units carry out a joint raid to take out China's only existing ICBM base.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_28b53408	comment	In First Encounter Assault Recon and its sequels, you're either a F.E.A.R. Agent, a Replica, an ATC Black Ops or a Nightcrawler. Otherwise, you're minced meat, and yes, that category includes Delta Force.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_2a893b9b	comment	In Counter-Strike, the Counter-Terrorist team is made up of the US SEAL Team, the British SAS, the French GIGN, the German GSG-9, and the Russian Spetznaz.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_2ce94f43	comment	And Crossed, where both British and American Special Forces, just like the rest of the rapidly crumbling world militaries, can do nothing at all to halt the Crossed virus which is spreading across the world but try to mitigate the damage while they still have the resources to do so, and try to make the post-apocalyptic hell that the world becomes a little bit easier to live with for the survivors.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_2f3eb71f	comment	The Americans at your disposal in Command & Conquer: Generals is made up of mostly elites and high-tech regulars. The Army Rangers are the basic U.S. Army infantry.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_2f865ae7	comment	Also played with in Valkyria Chronicles III, where your unit is a black-ops penal legion. However, their exploits (though not their fame) go on to rival those of Squad 7 itself.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_310b3174	comment	Operation Flashpoint: Partially averted in Dragon Rising. While there are plenty of missions where you play as a Force Recon unit named Saber, performing stealth and infiltration tasks...most of the really epic battles in the game have you in the role of a unit of standard frontline infantry named Dagger. And they're who you play as in the final, war-winning mission of the game. In the original Operation Flashpoint, you play as four different people. One is an SF operator, yes, and playing as him involves frankly hair-raising crawls through enemy camps to sabotage tanks, and so forth. But the others are a Pilot, flying a variety of missions which though important are nothing elite; a tank commander on the front line; and an infantryman in the thick of the fighting as part of a large unit with no special tasking or characteristics. So, a massive aversion for the most part here. Additionally, missions featuring the special forces operative are usually stealth-based and include very little to no actual fighting.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_319f68cc	comment	Extensively played with in The Universiad; while the main plotline has Applejack being inducted into the elite of the elite that is OSR, some Originals are members of elite groups and others are not. In fact, at least one group, the Close Air/Orbital Support Task Force, explicitly takes pride in being the regular joe schmoes who unglamorously play A-10 INSPACE.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_3239ebe8	comment	La Brea: Sam's one of two ex-military characters, having been in the elite Navy SEALs.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_3314d9a2	comment	Played with in Valkyria Chronicles II; while your team members are all cadets from Gallia's most elite military academy, the actual class they're in is a dumping ground for underachievers, eccentrics, and social undesirables. That said, they still end up proving themselves to be some of Gallia's best soldiers.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_350842	comment	In Red Scorpion, Dolph Lundgren stars as Nikolai Radchenko, a Spetsnaz Lieutenant.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_35952305	comment	In The Bear and the Dragon, Rainbow, having proven itself decisively in the previous book, is now assigned to the newly allied Russian military, to help bring their own Spetznaz forces up to par. The Russians are already extremely competent, and towards the end of the book, the two units carry out a joint raid to take out China's only existing ICBM base.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_36984148	comment	John Rambo from the Rambo films was a former Green Beret.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_36ee2abe	comment	This tendency is subverted in Paranoia: the elites are insanely glamorous, but you will never ever get to be one. No Red-clearance Troubleshooter has ever accidentally been given Ultraviolet clearance by a Killer Game Master just to see what kind of sheer havoc would occur. The new editions of Paranoia feature rules for high-clearance player characters. The action of the game revolves around the political scheming of the elite.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_38cb92a7	comment	Averted in Clear and Present Danger. All of the men recruited by the CIA to the secret operation against the Colombian cartels are very well-trained and qualified for their job, but most of them aren't drawn from existing elite special forces units, but more ordinary light infantry units. This is because special ops units form such a small and tight-knit subsection of the U.S. military, meaning that people would notice if too many of them were drawn from their posts at the same time.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_3ed9bbbc	comment	The Commandos series is one of the rare example of fictional representation of the British Commandos.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_41cc1c3a	comment	Halo 3: ODST, the "gaiden" game of the series where you get to play as a regular human instead of a Spartan Super-Soldier, still has you play as various ODSTs (the UNSC's most elite non-Spartan units) sent in by the Office of Naval Intelligence, rather than basic marines. In fact, the ODSTs you play as are specifically "Helljumpers" from the 105th Shock Troops Division, making them badass even by ODST standards.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_438b63e4	comment	Halo: Reach maintains the tradition as well. For one thing, NOBLE Team is fairly elite for a traditionally expendable SPARTAN-III team, to the point that one of their members is a much more valuable Spartan-II. For another, the player character, Noble 6, is a black ops assassin who is the only other person with the same lethality rating as Master Chief, which is more impressive given that Noble 6 him/herself is a Spartan-III.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_471e279c	comment	The Halo fan fiction The Life is practically built around this trope.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_47e486f8	comment	Heartbreak Ridge. Few marines fought at the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge, so the backstory of Clint Eastwood's character was changed to having first served in the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea, and joining the USMC afterwards. However it was the US Army Rangers who rescued American medical students in Grenada, not the Recon marines as portrayed in the film.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII does this in-universe with a fictional elite unit, SOLDIER, that are highly respected and feared by everyone. Being a member of SOLDIER is seen as cool — in one particular scene, it's established that SOLDIERs are expected to spend a lot of time striking poses and demanding admirers. Cloud was dead set on becoming a member and didn't, but between medical experimentation, magic, mind-breaking trauma and self-delusion managed to convince others he was one, anyway.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_4cd32aa7	comment	Averted pointedly by Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which makes out part of its appeal from the fact that players roll randomly for their origin story at the beginning of the game and it's the Game Master and players' job to make up a suitable story on what drove a Charcoal Burner, a Servant, a Hedge Wisdom and a Rat Catcher with their small (but vicious) dog to became an adventuring party. There are starting careers that represent your characters having experience in adventuring-suited skills, like soldiers or slayers, but they are rare and unlikely to obtain.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_51b94c97	comment	Invoked by AT-43's UNA subfaction CentCom. Their motto is "Better is better!", and their whole military doctrine is founded on the principle of deploying small groups of elite soldiers, usually without armor support. It's noted in the UNA army book that this hasn't proven effective against the Red Blok's opposite strategy of fielding hordes of mass-trained, comparatively less well-equipped soldiers. Generally speaking, being that every army has three to four subgroups with different tactics and make-ups, there's usually one group that fields fewer but more formidable soldiers than the others. The Red Blok itself, for instance, has Frontline, which is understaffed compared to the other Red Blok subgroups and makes up for this with its well-trained soldiers and state-of-the-art combat striders.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_53b30902	comment	Averted in the beginning of Valkyria Chronicles where your unit, Squad 7, is made up out of a bunch of civilian militia recruits and local police forces with the only exceptional item being your main characters father's tank. However, not only do your units gain 'elite' status when leveled high enough, by the end of the game your unit is taking on all the truly epic missions anyway. Hell, Squad 7 is the only reason Gallia doesn't fall, as the entire army — the entire main army — gets completely obliterated towards the end of the game. Absolutely nothing changes, because the army was useless anyway. That said, Squad 7 is actually treated by the rest of the army as mere cannon fodder; they were just too awesome to die. But while they might not have been officially named elites, that's what they really were.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_53bbdf0c	comment	Most Wanted: Dunn was not just a Marine, but in Force Recon, who are elite special operations.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_550ba959	comment	Modern Warfare 2 now gives us the U.S. Army Rangers, and the international special ops unit Task Force 141. Again, though, both are largely doing the correct missions for their sorts of units.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_550ba95a	comment	In Modern Warfare 3, you play a large part of the game as Frost, member of the Delta Force squad "Metal"; as World War III has started, their missions are sometimes real special forces work and sometimes they are just called in to help for more conventional tasks. Also, Yuri, the other main playable character, is former Spetsnaz and Captain Price, as whom you play during the last mission, is former SAS and Task Force 141. NPC allies also include other elites, such as the French GIGN, US Navy SEALs, and more British SAS.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_56fa0ea4	comment	In Civilization 4, the unique unit for America is the Navy SEAL. (Which, in-game, is mechanically a buffed version of the Marine.)
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_58173119	comment	Played entirely straight in Rainbow Six. Rainbow is a multinational (mostly NATO) counterterrorist team whose members are drawn from what are already the best special forces, intelligence, or police counterterrorism units of their respective countries. These include Navy SEALs and Army Rangers from the U.S, SAS from the U.K, DGSE from France, and GSG-9 from Germany. In a bit of irony, Rainbow's elite status causes some resentment from SOCOM, the U.S.'s own special operations command, whose general feels that it's poaching on what's supposed to be his turf.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_59151283	comment	The Metal Gear series has one of its major characters Big Boss be a career veteran of the United States Military who was involved in various Special Forces. He served as a Green Beret for 10 years until he was recruited by the CIA to be part of a fictional group known as FOX. Later on, he served in Vietnam doing the CIA's top secret black ops working such groups as MAC-V SOG and the Navy Seals. According to the fiction of the universe Big Boss was also the man that helped found the Delta Force and his own personal black ops organization under his command called FOXHOUND, a successor to FOX. Solid Snake himself was a former Green Beret before joining FOXHOUND.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_5e91c7a	comment	The two protagonists of Resident Evil were both elites in their previous careers (Jill was Delta Force and Chris was a USAF Fighter Pilot), and in-game are members of S.T.A.R.S., itself an elite squad in the Raccoon Police Department.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_616d06a5	comment	The protagonist duo of the Army of Two series began their careers as US Army Rangers who decided to become private military contractors (which tend to be Elites who get paid more and don't have to worry about a government defense budget and NATO "lowest bidder" equipment standardization).
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_6196490	comment	Section 9 in Ghost in the Shell could be seen as an elite counter-terror police unit (the name itself is speculated to be a homage to the GSG-9). When top-ranking government officials involved in the conspiracy wants them neutralized, they have to send the JMSDF's Umibozu commandos to covertly kill them. It still fails because they're just that good at their job.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_6764c940	comment	The Strikers from World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman are this. They've collectively killed more metaphysical monsters than the regular military.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_6819fb9f	comment	Rainbow Six comprises the Elites of the Elites. It's a multinational unit comprised of the best from each nation's commando teams.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_68c7e5cd	comment	Macross Frontier is an odd case. The main protagonist is a pilot of SMS, a Private Military Contractors, which is outside of the regular NUNS. However, the SMS is equipped with the some of the best weapons, vehicles and equipment available in the Macross Frontier Fleet and their pilots are regarded as better due to the high standard. Also, they mostly do missions considered to difficult for the NUNS. So, is it played straight or subverted?
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_69dc7b40	comment	Both played straight and averted in Executive Orders. Two of the U.S. Army units that fight off the UIR invasion in the Second Persian Gulf War are the best armored cavalry units in the service. The third, however, is a National Guard unit, albeit one that's been trained by the other two.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_69f5f841	comment	Modern Warfare (CoD 4) has your characters being in the USMC Force Recon and SAS. The SAS are conducting the special operations for which they are famous; the USMC Force Recon, however, are largely playing the role of much more standard Marines or even regular army, so, oddly enough, they are the out of place unit.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_6a307d4	comment	Titanfall and its sequel has the Pilots, an elite squad of soldiers who went through extensive and often perilous training regiments for both physical and mental preparation so they could fight as well on foot as when piloting a Titan. They're so renowned, you'd often catch allied NPC grunts pointing you out, remarking how amazing you are, and openly claiming the enemy stands no chance now.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Lt. Sonya Blade and Maj. Jackson Briggs are both Special Forces, though the games don't explicitly say what type. Sonya's attire in some games implies Green Beret.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_6e627c5c	comment	Halo 5: Guardians goes even further; the campaign is split between the Spartan-IIs of Blue Team (including the Chief) and the Spartan-IVs of Fireteam Osiris (which includes both Jameson Locke of Nightfall and Edward Buck from ODST).
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_70814599	comment	Largely played straight in Stargate SG-1. While Stargate Command isn't manned by any existing special forces groups, its SG-teams are largely portrayed as those kinds of units. This includes an extremely extensive skillset (with the teams being constructed to have strong scientific, cultural, and archaeological skills as well as the usual combat skills), and a somewhat looser relationship with the chain of command (with a significant amount of leeway from command authority as well as civilians and even aliens serving on these teams if their skills or knowledge justify it). SG-1 itself is considered the flagship team of Stargate Command, the best among these elite groups. Within it, Jack O'Neill is himself a career veteran of Air Force Special Ops (with references made to numerous past missions in trouble spots like East Germany, Iran, and Iraq), while Teal'c is the former leader of Apophis' armies (which, in a society where Rank Scales with Asskicking, means he was the best fighter in the entire army).
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_718f3ed1	comment	Most of your allies in Call of Duty: Black Ops II are part of the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six, the elite of the already-elite Navy SEALs. Not only that, David Mason, the player character, commands them.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_73d7930f	comment	Deconstructed on the Deep Space Nine episode "Valiant" which centers around the "Red Squad" elite cadets of Starfleet Academy. Red Squad's belief that they are the best of the best in Starfleet leads them to massively overestimate their own capabilities and causes them to try and take on a Dominion Warship by themselves, which ends with their deaths. At the end of the day, an elite cadet is still just a cadet.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_73f5b8e2	comment	The Black Company starts their story in hard times, doing a unprofitable assignment for the Syndic of Beryl and the Black Company itself reduced to being a force of thieves, rapists and fugitives. Even then, after being recruited into the service of the Lady, they immediately prove to be a cut above the rest of her regular Mooks. And every so often the company historian will dig through their annals and recite about their origins - how they were one of the 12 legendary Free Companies of Khatovar and can reclaim their gloried heritage.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_75149ccd	comment	The X-Wing Series plays this trope straight, with Rogue Squadron explicitly being the best starfighter squadron in the New Republic, while Wraith Squadron is not far behind them and, if not the best, certainly the most versatile (its pilots are fully qualified as spies and commandos and are called on to do this as often as they are to fly). How this affects their relations with the rest of the military is discussed repeatedly, however, with their cliqueishness and elite status causing some resentment for their peers, and some discussion of how it can cause real problems. Colonel Salm, a Y-wing squadron leader, points out that his (and most) pilots aren't the prodigies that the Rogues are, but get through their battles anyways by being competent technicians rather than gifted performers... which means they can't afford to go too far off-script the way the Rogues do if they're going to remain effective. There's also some talk of the glamour surrounding starfighter pilots in general, which various characters (including Wedge and other pilots themselves) acknowledge unfairly overlooks the work of cargo pilots, capital ship crews, and other parts of the fleet who shared the dangers and whose contributions were equally vital.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: You normally play as the Master Chief, a super-elite, semi-secret, power-armoured, and surgically-enhanced SPARTAN-II Super-Soldier. In Halo 2, you also play as the Arbiter, a member of the Covenant species colloquially called "Elites" for their prowess in battle (all of them are physically a match for the aforementioned Spartan-IIs). He is deployed alongside the Covenant's own special forces on various Suicide Missions to atone for not being able to stop the Chief in the first game, and he happens to be the former Supreme Commander of a massive fleet who earned his position through Asskicking Leads to Leadership. In Halo 3's co-op mode, players 3 and 4 get to play as two Elites from the Fleet of Retribution's Special Warfare Group; N'tho 'Sraom is the youngest member of his Special Operations unit, and Usze 'Taham is a highly distinguished Fleet Security operative. Players 1 and 2? The Chief and Arbiter. Halo 3: ODST, the "gaiden" game of the series where you get to play as a regular human instead of a Spartan Super-Soldier, still has you play as various ODSTs (the UNSC's most elite non-Spartan units) sent in by the Office of Naval Intelligence, rather than basic marines. In fact, the ODSTs you play as are specifically "Helljumpers" from the 105th Shock Troops Division, making them badass even by ODST standards. Halo: Reach maintains the tradition as well. For one thing, NOBLE Team is fairly elite for a traditionally expendable SPARTAN-III team, to the point that one of their members is a much more valuable Spartan-II. For another, the player character, Noble 6, is a black ops assassin who is the only other person with the same lethality rating as Master Chief, which is more impressive given that Noble 6 him/herself is a Spartan-III. Halo 4 also continues the tradition, with Spartan-IVs as the stars of both the multiplayer and the Spartan Ops co-op campaign. Halo 5: Guardians goes even further; the campaign is split between the Spartan-IIs of Blue Team (including the Chief) and the Spartan-IVs of Fireteam Osiris (which includes both Jameson Locke of Nightfall and Edward Buck from ODST).
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_75c31694	comment	The A-Team: The titular team was an elite special forces unit in The Vietnam War (the name was a colloquial term for the U.S. Army's real-life Operational Detachment Alphas). They're elite even within that community, widely considered the best American unit of the war by their admirers and detractors alike. Even after they're (wrongfully) arrested, tried, and convicted, the fact that they quickly broke out of prison and managed to remain at large for the next fifteen years, despite the U.S. Army's best efforts and the fact that they were right under their nose (living in the United States) and not exactly keeping a low profile (working as soldiers of fortune helping the helpless), is compelling evidence that they are indeed as good as everyone says.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_761813a6	comment	Band of Brothers covers the story of Easy Company of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne. Several of the company members, such as Carwood Lipton, cite this trope as the reason they joined the Airborne in the first place.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7668653b	comment	The multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3 centers around a squad of elite operatives with access to abilities and equipment comparable to Shepard's. The Illusive Man's Dragon Kai Leng was, like Shepard, an N7 operative.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_76e539c2	comment	Invoked in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS by Lt. Colonel Hayate who initiated the Riot Force Six at the beginning of the season. They're not just a branch in the Time-Space Administration Bureau, they're a highly trained special force filled with prodigies and living legends from top to bottom, created specifically to prevent the Bureau's destruction which was ominously predicted by Carim's annual prophecies.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_771fc130	comment	Delta Green has the Special Operator profession. It is considered one of the "core" professionsnote along with Federal Agent, Physician, Anthropologist,Historian, Computer Scientist and Engineer, while the Soldier/Marine is considered an "additional" profession. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize how useful a special forces operator is for a Delta Green team then a normal Soldier/Marine, not only they can shoot and fight better, most of their training includes higly specialized stuff like Unconventional Warfare and Counterterrorism, and how some units have training to covertly act in foreign soil for months without support, such as the Green Berets or the CIA SAD/SOG. The Special Operator includes members of the USSOCOM, FBI Hostage Rescue Team and CIA Paramilitary. In the prequel spin-off game set in The Vietnam War, The Fall of DELTA GREEN, most of those organizations were founded over the course of the decade or not at all yet. Special Forces has lapsed into the Military Service category for this game, but gives more bonuses then an active duty Soldier or Marine.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_794d9734	comment	Mutant Chronicles is rife with them, with the most prominent being the Cartel's Doom Troopers who get the best of everything from among the Corporations and then there are more specific corporate elites such as Bauhaus's Venusian Rangers and Capitol's Sea Lions. Zigzagged with Capitol's Free Marines, the Free Marines are a Penal troops known for their atrocities and kept in check only by given an antidote to a poison they're forced to take and the promise of freedom after service. That said the Free Marines are considered an elite fighting force because of their renowned savagery.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7988cb68	comment	Each of the major Council species in Mass Effect has famed In-Universe special forces: The Council itself has Special Tactics and Reconnaissance, or "Spectres", top-tier agents selected from the very best of the Council species to serve as black ops operatives that answer directly to the members of the Council. They are entrusted with extraordinary amounts of power and are legally allowed to violate virtually every law in Council space in service of their missions. Commander Shepard is selected to become the first human Spectre at the start of the series. Humanity: The N7 special forces, which represent the very best of the best of the Systems Alliance military. The N7 are just the highest tier of soldiers who have completed every level of Interplanetary Combatives Training, which is so grueling and intense that even soldiers who wash out at the first level (N1) are greatly respected by their comrades for simply being selected in the first place. Shepard is also an N7 Naval Special Warfare officer in addition to being a Spectre. Other graduates of the N7 program include Shepard's commanding officer David Anderson and Alec Ryder. Asari: The asari commandos, who form the elite of their military. They're all extremely talented in biotics and guerrilla tactics, and In-Universe are considered the deadliest individual warriors in the galaxy. In Mass Effect 3, Flavor Text for their War Assets entry mentions an incident in which a group of five commandos managed to whittle down a group of over a hundred Blood Pack mercenaries over the course of several days before finally forcing the survivors to surrender with zero casualties. Salarians: The Special Tasks Group, or STG, who are easily the most skilled espionage operatives in the entire galaxy. Of the various elites in the Mass Effect universe, the STG receive the least amount of public attention or fanfare, but that's probably because they win all of their battles before anyone even knows what happened. The aforementioned Spectres were modeled after STG, and the earliest Spectre operatives were drawn from their ranks. Turians: Blackwatch, which is mobilized only in response to situations that directly threaten the safety of the turian homeworld itself. They are said to have the highest success rate of any unit in the turian military, already the most feared fighting force in the galaxy. Ironically, despite the turians being the Proud Warrior Race Guys of the Mass Effect universe, Blackwatch receives the least amount of attention and is only mentioned in Flavor Text. Nonetheless, some of the most respected and badass turians in the series were said to have served or rumored to have served in Blackwatch, including the first game's Big Bad Saren Arterius. While not a Council race, Krogan Battlemasters are generally treated as the most dangerous people in the galaxy, being extremely powerful biotics from a species of walking tanks. The only one we see, teammate Urdnot Wrex, mentions that he once had a week-long battle with an asari commando that ended when they blew up the station they were on. The commando also survived. Your teammates also demonstrate this, especially in 2 — a retired member of the salarian elite force who inspired the Spectres, one of the galaxy's most talented assassins, a tank-bred perfect krogan, an asari with 400 years' experience as a Justicar, one of humanity's most powerful biotics, and one of Cerberus's most trusted Operatives are all recruitable, and most of them are inescapable. Justified because unlike the first game, where your squad is pretty much scrounged together from whoever's most willing to tag along, you're specifically recruiting the most badass team you can deal with a major enemy. The multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3 centers around a squad of elite operatives with access to abilities and equipment comparable to Shepard's. The Illusive Man's Dragon Kai Leng was, like Shepard, an N7 operative.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Monarch now has an elite military team called G-Team to help them combat the eco-terrorists. The G-Team are close to the organization's scientific top brass, especially the leader, while every other military presence in the movie dies like flies as the Kaiju awaken and emerge en masse with King Ghidorah directing them to end the world.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic has the Trooper character, the newest addition to the Republic's elite Havoc Squad, with a starting rank of Sergeant, and regarded as the 'best of the best'. Subverted, though, in that their starting equipment is a t-shirt and weapons worse than the rest of his squad and piddling starter weapons that are worse than the Separatists they'll be fighting, their own squadmates in Havoc, and even the local militia. Of course, in later parts of the game you gain appropriately awesome gear, and a reputation to match it (judging by the number of Republic NPCs who are starstruck on seeing you.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7e0fd062	comment	Con Air: Poe was an Army Ranger. Unlike in many examples, not only does this set up his combat skills, but also refusal to leave a friend behind (plus a sympathetic female guard) as it's part of the Ranger creed (even said via voiceover at the beginning).
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7e99f44f	comment	In Sergey Bondarchuk's Waterloo a disproportionate amount of screen time is devoted to the Polish Lancers of the Imperial Guard, who in actual fact were just one squadron strong in 1815 and thus much too small a unit to make a significant contribution. In the film it is they who throw back the charge of the Union Brigade (Royal Dragoons, Royal Scots Greys and Inniskillin Dragoons), in actual fact it was two regiments of French line lancers, who wore a very different uniform (green jackets, brass helmets). Also not untypically the only British cavalry regiment shown in that charge is the Scots Greys, who were the only dragoons one to wear bearskin caps instead of helmets.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7f87dafc	comment	Most of the principal ZAFT pilots in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny are "Reds", top military academy graduates. Referenced in universe with the OZ Organization in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Originally a subset of the Alliance military, OZ was the object of scorn and envy for their custom uniforms, elite equipment and assignments, aristocratic sponsorship and lavish funding... by those very same aristocrats of the Romefeller Foundation, who have plans of their own for their very own private army.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_8063b105	comment	Kings of the Wyld: Unlike most settings, mercenaries are considered elite forces who earn glory and fame by protecting people from monsters. It's explained that part of the reason for this is because there hasn't been a large scale human-vs-human war in decades, so the normal army units don't have much to do besides parade and guard things. Mercenaries, on the other hand, are constantly testing themselves against monsters, so one mercenary is easily a match for a dozen normal soldiers.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_8157d894	comment	Most of the stories in the Vast Empire setting are about the elite stormtroopers of Phoenix Company.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_889f079f	comment	In 6 Days, the British Special Air Service are called in from a training exercise when terrorists take the Iranian Embassy in London hostage.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_892bbfb8	comment	Partially averted in Three Kings. Though Major Gates is a former Delta operator and a Special Forces/Ranger qualified Soldier, the warriors he leads are simple Civil Affairs Soldiers.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: Godzilla (2014): Lieutenant Ford Brody is an Explosive Ordinance Disposal specialist, and on top of being the main human protagonist of the movie, he's insanely Unluckily Lucky with his constant Kaiju encounters whereas all the other soldiers â€“ including a specialist bomb-transporting team who have less experience than Ford â€“ die like burning flies. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Monarch now has an elite military team called G-Team to help them combat the eco-terrorists. The G-Team are close to the organization's scientific top brass, especially the leader, while every other military presence in the movie dies like flies as the Kaiju awaken and emerge en masse with King Ghidorah directing them to end the world.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_8cd6b86f	comment	Battle of the Bulge: The German tanks are depicted as all being the famous Tiger. Tigers were very rare in the real battle — they were too wide for the narrow roads and too heavy for the bridges. Panzer IVs were much more common.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_8d884aea	comment	Red Dawn (2012) stars Chris Hemsworth as a marine, and the main characters are later attacked by Russian Spetsnaz.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_8f04d767	comment	Hilariously averted in Battlefield: Bad Company, where the cast is part of the Redshirt Army and knows it, once lampshading that they're going into an important but dangerous mission first just to see how dangerous it is, because the elites cost more money to train and are thus "too expensive to waste." Subverted in Bad Company 2 when Sweetwater insists the squad be the ones to tackle the villain's scheme, not trusting the spec-ops guys and their "pussy-ass heartbeat monitors" to get the job done. The boys of B-Company succeed.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks averts this with the USS Cerritos as the main ship, which specializes in lower risk missions like second contact and routine diplomacy. However the USS Vancouver is featured as one of the standard high profile ships, and the engineering officer is on the verge of a nervous breakdown as a result, hoping to transfer to a lower risk ship like the Cerritos. One recent mission involved the Vancouver crew traveling back in time to kill the person worse than Hitler.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_903a9871	comment	Dark Heresy casts you as the servant of the Inquisition, which should in the 40k Universe come with great power and authority. Rogue Trader moves you even higher up the totem pole, putting you in a role which would be analogous to being Hernan Cortez while everyone else is a muck-farming peasant. Deathwatch promotes you all the way to a Super-Soldier who is an object of reverence to common people. In each case, your station is far beyond that of normal human beings.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_90f18253	comment	Battletech: The game is centered around the titular technology, namely the big stompy robots called "BattleMechs". Despite being only one part of the combined arms available to the universe's militaries, a combination of technological and cultural factors To whit...myomer making 'mech movement possible and more weight-efficient than a tracked vehicle, a set of Fictional Geneva Conventions making Orbital Bombardment and strategic bombing illegal, high expense of FTL travel heavily limiting army sizes that can be transported to invade a given world, advanced ECM making beyond-visual missiles unreliable, unchecked expansion and a number of apocalyptic offscreen wars meaning most settled worlds are extremely undeveloped and have populations in the millions instead of billions, and a Feudal Future with a big and bored noble class who want war to be cool means the big stompy robots take up over 90% of the screentime. When Star League formed, each member state was expected to contribute troops to their common military, the Star League Defense Forces. However, the Terran Hegemony, the Hegemon of Star League and its most technologically advanced member, created its own "Royal" regiments intended to protect the Hegemony territories and the leader of Star League. These were made up exclusively of recruits from the Hegemony and given their own, improved, variants of all their equipment in order to showcase the Hegemony's status as the "First Amongst Equals".
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_9842b0d3	comment	Averted in Dog Soldiers — an SAS squad are discovered dead at the start of the film, and serve as a sort of off-screen Sacrificial Lion. The rest of the film focuses on regular troops.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_99f4863c	comment	Unhallowed Metropolis has the Deathwatch, these are elite forces protecting London from the preternatural forces attacking the city. The Deathwatch has their own specific armor including their trademark gasmask and steel doughboy helmet. Additionally the Deathwatch used powerful weapons that'd be illegal for any other character to use, such as the Death Ray. On the non-military side of things, standing above other adventurers are the Undertakers and Mourners. Undertakers are elite bounty hunters known for their top hat and effectiveness in kiling the undead as well as other things that go bump in the night. The Mourners are famed dual-wielding warriors who are part of a guild to aid the bereaved in mourning dead loved ones and seeing that the corpse doesn't become animated.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_9b1333a5	comment	Top Gun follows a squadron of navy aviators through their training in the prestigious "Top Gun" elite school for aerial combat. The real TOPGUN (and its Air Force equivalent, Red Flag) is more along the lines of "learn this shit, then go teach it to your home squadron."
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls series' spin-off Dungeon Crawl game, Battlespire, takes place in the titular Battlespire, an extra-dimensional magical training facility for the Imperial Battlemages. The Player Character is an apprentice looking to join the Shadow Legion, an elite division within the Imperial Battlemages.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	And from The Boys:
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	There is a subtle example in Salvation Reach, a part of the Gaunt's Ghosts series. When Rawne's team gets assigned to protect the Chaos defector, he has special badges made which distinguish his troopers from other Ghosts, even the elite scouts and snipers. Also, the team has its own name, the Suicide King, which reflects their extraordinary status.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_a134c04a	comment	In The World of Darkness games, you will almost always be able to easily create a new character who is an elite member of modern society even if they are just a new member of their supernatural society. They will generally be one of The Beautiful Elite or this trope. This tends to make sense as either the character's latent supernatural powers aided them or their elite status was what attracted the supernatural to them. Starting characters can easily be world famous pro athletes, gifted, acclaimed scientists, or commandos in the modern world.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_a2d52a11	comment	Averted in Yamato. Kamio is an ordinary enlisted sailor and Uchida a petty officer. While the eponymous battleship can be considered a better posting than most, they're not treated In-Universe as some exclusive, elevated group. The old Kamio certainly doesn't speak of the experience like it covered him in glory.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_a4a6b86a	comment	All the named and important characters that are shown fighting in Code Geass are elite soldiers of some kind. The Black Knights consists of the Zero Squad, led by Ace Pilot Kallen, the Four Holy Swords, led by Todoh, and former resistance members who've been promoted due to seniority. Britannia, meanwhile, has the bulk of its military power seemingly consisting of Suzaku and the Lancelot, Cornelia and her Glaston Knights, Schneizel's faction and his cool toys, and the Knights of Rounds. Regular soldiers are usually just cannon-fodder, unless they're used for an important strategic plot. Even the China arc focuses mainly on Li Xingke and those loyal to him.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_a72cd425	comment	In The Suckers, Great White Hunter Jeff Baxter is a former Green Beret who served in Vietnam. Egomaniac Hunter Steve Vandemeer says that this makes him deadly even without access to his modern weaponry, and therefore suitable prey when Hunting the Most Dangerous Game.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_a949e666	comment	Elysium: Kruger himself is Ex-Special Forces turned chief enforcer for the Civil Cooperation Bureau. John Carlyle's security droids are pretty standard, aside from the fact that they're gold. Yeah, subtle.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_a9d9d1f1	comment	In The Rose of Versailles, the military units that receive the most screentime are literally the elite of the elite: the Garde du Corps du Roi is the elite regiment of the French cavalry and Oscar serves in their first company (that is considered even more elite than the rest of the regiment), and in the French Guards (the elite regiment of the French Army: they may be infantry, but they're considered more prestigious than any cavalry due being a Badass Army) she commanded a grenadier company (grenadiers being infantry), identified as such by the uniforms. Even the named units that received screentime are elite: the La Fere (manga only, thanks to NapolÃ©on Bonaparte showing up to provide a Sequel Hook) had earned the fame as elite artillery (and taught recruits how to fire cannons), the Royal-SuÃ©dois (thanks to Fersen being their commander) was elite Swedish infantry, and the Royal Allemand (that got Worfed by the rebelling French Guards even when supported by an unidentified grenadier regiment) was elite German cavalry. Justified by Oscar's father using his political clout to get her into the Garde du Corps, Marie Antoinette, upon receiving Oscar's request for a demotion, choosing specifically the French Guards due them being part of the Royal Household, Napoleon being just that good to be assigned to that regiment, and the foreign regiments being raised specifically to be elite troops and more loyal than non-Household French-raised regiments.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_b3484036	comment	Area 51: Turcotte's a Green Beret (US Army Special Forces). We also encounter members of other elite units, including the British SAS (Special Air Service) or later US Navy SEALs. This is usually justified, as they're used for very hard, important missions, and explains why Turcotte's so good.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_b5f08143	comment	Saving Private Ryan follows a squad of Rangers from D-Day onwards, while the titular Private Ryan is a paratrooper.note In fact, all of the American troops the squad encounters on its mission to find Ryan are from airborne units — either parachute or glider infantry. On the German side, the unit the heroes face during the climactic battle is part of the Waffen SS.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_bacb3abc	comment	All over the place in The Rock. General Hummel is considered "the greatest [American] commander of the Vietnam War," and all of his men are former members of Marine Force Recon, the U.S. Marine Corps' most elite special ops unit. The team sent out to take back Alcatraz from him are Navy SEALs. John Mason, meanwhile, was a member of the SAS before being disavowed by his government, though he seems to view his entire army in this light:
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Saddam-era Iraq's elites were the Republican Guard on the ground. In the air, it was the Iraqi Air Force, considered one of the best-trained and best-equipped air forces in the Arab world. The bulk of the Iraqi military, however, were made up of largely conscripted forces that were held together almost completely by the intimidation of their commanding officers, whose morale tactics could best be compared to Commissars from Warhammer 40,000. When both the Airforce and the Republican Guard fell apart, the bulk of Saddam's military simply surrendered en mass. Thus illustrating an often forgotten but important lesson: never focus on your elites to the detriment of the rest of your military. It didn't help that even so-called elites were in many cases mind-boggingly inept, to the point that a typical Iraqi pilot failed to react to the radar lock and/or missile warning — assuming he even had radar and missile warning devices in the first place. An American EF-111 even became the only craft in its family to achieve an aerial victory by making an Iraqi jet maneuver itself into the ground. This applied in the Falklands War of 1982; the very hardest land fighting was against elite Marine units of the Argentinian Army, who fought on to the last bullet, despite the fact the conscript army around them was collapsing and surrendering en masse. Since the war ended, Argentina appears to have learnt this lesson and is now developing more elite units along British lines of training and organisation.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_bff01809	comment	In Warhammer Fantasy many elite units receive a lot more glory than the rest. Knights in particular are are best remembered for their bravery and skills in turning the tide of battle in their favor. The best example is Crusades of Araby, where a combined army of Empire and Bretonnian knights fought against the armies of the Araby sultan Jaffar, who's army outnumber theirs 20 to 1, the knights fought them off all the way back to Araby, and their deeds are greatly glorified to this day. Warhammer Fantasy also had its own version of the Fall of Medusa V called the "Storm of Chaos" worldwide campaign. This campaign pitted an Elite Army of Chaos Warriors known as the Army of the Everchosen (lead by the at that point newly-introduced Big Bad of the setting, Archaeon the Everchosen) in an invasion of The Empire of Sigmar. Many new players lured in by the marketing picked the Army of the Everchosen as it was the elite showcase army, which ended up putting them against The Empire (traditionally one of the more popular armies) and its more veteran players. Result: The Army of the Everchosen lost badly, with their "Hold The Line" battles usually ending with the Empire succeeding at multiple objectives per battle despite 2-to-1 odds against. Just like with Medusa V, a Story Overwrite determined Chaos had won anyway, with The Empire saved at the last moment by the third-ranked army (WAAAGH! Grimgor, another Elite Army made for the campaign). The backlash led to the whole thing being declared Canon Discontinuity and the later End Times being done entirely by GW's writers. Averted pointedly by Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which makes out part of its appeal from the fact that players roll randomly for their origin story at the beginning of the game and it's the Game Master and players' job to make up a suitable story on what drove a Charcoal Burner, a Servant, a Hedge Wisdom and a Rat Catcher with their small (but vicious) dog to became an adventuring party. There are starting careers that represent your characters having experience in adventuring-suited skills, like soldiers or slayers, but they are rare and unlikely to obtain.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_c2e48301	comment	The Hunt for Red October: Marko Ramius, the captain of the titular ship, is universally acknowledged as the best submarine officer the Soviet navy has ever had. The officers he's trained, by extension, are considered the service's best and brightest and have come to dominate it over the course of twenty years as more and more of them rise to command positions. This doesn't sit well with everybody, as critics note that this clique is dangerously close to being a personality cult and that allowing it to develop runs explicitly against Communist Party policy. It turns out the Party was right for once, as Ramius and his entirely handpicked senior crew end up defecting to the United States with the Soviet Navy's most advanced submarine.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_c4a1d59e	comment	The Call of Duty series of games is a particularly good example: In the first game the various characters you play are in the 101st Airborne, 6th Airborne and SAS, and the 13th Guards Rifle Division. In the second your characters are from the 13th Guards again, 7th Armoured "Desert Rats" (historically distinguished itself in North Africa) and US Army Rangers. Call Of Duty 3 zigzags this trope. The SAS is featured, fighting alongside the French Resistance, but they play a relatively small role in comparison with the US 29th and 90th Infantry, the Canadian 4th Armoured, and the Free Polish 1st Armoured division. The plot of the game concerns closing the Falaise Pocket, which is accomplished by the conventional units, while the SAS missions are largely unconnected to that objective. Modern Warfare (CoD 4) has your characters being in the USMC Force Recon and SAS. The SAS are conducting the special operations for which they are famous; the USMC Force Recon, however, are largely playing the role of much more standard Marines or even regular army, so, oddly enough, they are the out of place unit. Modern Warfare 2 now gives us the U.S. Army Rangers, and the international special ops unit Task Force 141. Again, though, both are largely doing the correct missions for their sorts of units. World at War: Marine Raiders/1st Marine Division and 150th Rifle Division (Historically the formation whose soldiers raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag). However, the 150th Rifle Division might not exactly be considered elite, but That Other Wiki states that the 3rd Shock Army they were in, all Shock Armies in fact, received more artillery and armour support than other armies in Russia. Call of Duty: Black Ops is continuing this trend. You play as a member of the CIA's Special Activities Division, that performs, well, black ops. In Modern Warfare 3, you play a large part of the game as Frost, member of the Delta Force squad "Metal"; as World War III has started, their missions are sometimes real special forces work and sometimes they are just called in to help for more conventional tasks. Also, Yuri, the other main playable character, is former Spetsnaz and Captain Price, as whom you play during the last mission, is former SAS and Task Force 141. NPC allies also include other elites, such as the French GIGN, US Navy SEALs, and more British SAS. Most of your allies in Call of Duty: Black Ops II are part of the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six, the elite of the already-elite Navy SEALs. Not only that, David Mason, the player character, commands them.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_c77b15f0	comment	In the Crusader games, you are already one of the most elite soldiers in the world...and then you defect and join the underfunded, undermanned, underequipped, undertrained Resistance and single-handedly take on missions it would normally take entire assault teams of rebels to complete.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_c9cd78c2	comment	Die Hard with a Vengeance: Simon Gruber and his entire unit. While they've long since turned outlaw, they were all part of the most elite infiltration unit of the East German STASI, chosen and trained specifically for their ability to pass as Americans (or other Westerners) to help them operate behind enemy lines in the event of a war. These skills come in very handy when Gruber plans to knock off New York's Federal Reserve.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_ca846d7d	comment	Halo: Nightfall: Locke's ONI teammates, who certainly aren't shy about it, complaining that the Sedrans will only slow them down with all their equipment being "200 years" behind the regular UNSC's.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d0e25eb9	comment	Heavy Object: The titular Objects undergo massive acceleration during battle, so only the specially conditioned and modified Elites can pilot them. The training of a single Elite costs nearly as much as producing their Object and they are accordingly treated as a massively valuable war resource, pampered and protected outside of combat. Many are even celebrities due to the propaganda value of the Elite single-handedly fighting a war against an enemy nation. By contrast, the soldiers assigned to their support units are completely expendable and are given only the most basic of supplies and training.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d1710608	comment	The Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell are focused on a small group of skirmisher riflemen on detached duty from the 95th Rifles (previously Prince Consort's Own), a reconnaissance unit using skirmisher tactics, camouflage and advanced weaponry, hence, the closest thing to special forces in the Napoleonic Era. They are generally portrayed as highly superior to regular rank-and-file infantrymen of the British Army, who are hardly able to achieve anything without the help of the protagonists. It's worth noting that no one considers the 95th a particularly glamorous posting, the unit being a young unit mainly composed of conscripted poachers with jumped-up rankers for officers. The true glamorous elites are units like the Blues and Royals, the Scottish Grenadiers and the Royal American Rifles. Sharpe is at one point offered a transfer to the RAR, and it is clear that the offerer considers this a considerable step up, even without an accompanying promotion.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d30f13f0	comment	Averted in Deadman Wonderland. A JGSDF commando unit ends up getting massacred by Toto when they were securing DW Wonderland after the premises were abandoned.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d3339955	comment	One of the options in the Stars Without Number military sourcebook "Skyward Steel" is for the players to be a Deep Black team — an elite, covert-insertion team where unless you want to roleplay through recruitment as well, you have to start at level 3. Of course, this is strictly intended as a form of military-focused game style; default SWN PC groups start as, at best, "a bunch of guys who have a ship and a few guns".
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d3381e70	comment	In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson is introduced as a former member of an elite Air Force unit that outfitted its members with advanced suits of flying body armor.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d4e57349	comment	ESWAT really emphasizes this. In the game, you are just a lowly beat cop named Duke Oda who has to first defeat 3 bosses with nothing more than your standard police sidearm. Once you do that, you are then accepted into the ranks of the elite ESWAT team where Duke is outfitted in a suit of Powered Armor that has a shoulder launcher and a machine gun Arm Cannon.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d50a1ab9	comment	Geist begins with the main character as a member of a suspicious paramilitary unit.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d5166b43	comment	In Halo 2, you also play as the Arbiter, a member of the Covenant species colloquially called "Elites" for their prowess in battle (all of them are physically a match for the aforementioned Spartan-IIs). He is deployed alongside the Covenant's own special forces on various Suicide Missions to atone for not being able to stop the Chief in the first game, and he happens to be the former Supreme Commander of a massive fleet who earned his position through Asskicking Leads to Leadership.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d5166b44	comment	In Halo 3's co-op mode, players 3 and 4 get to play as two Elites from the Fleet of Retribution's Special Warfare Group; N'tho 'Sraom is the youngest member of his Special Operations unit, and Usze 'Taham is a highly distinguished Fleet Security operative. Players 1 and 2? The Chief and Arbiter.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d5166b45	comment	Halo 4 also continues the tradition, with Spartan-IVs as the stars of both the multiplayer and the Spartan Ops co-op campaign.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_d72b0239	comment	In Rise of Nations, the main infantry unit for the Americans is the Marine. This appears in a slightly different form elsewhere. As unique units of civilizations are upgraded past their historical ages, the game usually "elites" them. Sometimes, it's not so bad like companion cavalry -> cataphracts. Some are pushing it like Roman legions -> Praetorian Guard. But Hwarang -> Elite Hwarang -> Royal Hwarang -> Elite Royal Hwarang is just silly.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_da8d3132	comment	The Americans yet again; this time, in Act of War, although this is more towards a specific Badass Army branch known as "Task Force Talon". They get the so-called bleeding edge technology that no one else can get. Your basic grunt is the Task Force Commando. Tech up and you get the Future Force Warrior.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_de8fbcb1	comment	Godzilla (2014): Lieutenant Ford Brody is an Explosive Ordinance Disposal specialist, and on top of being the main human protagonist of the movie, he's insanely Unluckily Lucky with his constant Kaiju encounters whereas all the other soldiers â€“ including a specialist bomb-transporting team who have less experience than Ford â€“ die like burning flies.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_e5dc440a	comment	The S.W.A.T. series; it's right there in the title really. Though in this case the franchise is actually a spin-off of the Police Quest games, which are a complete aversion.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_e5ea79ee	comment	Hilariously Averted in the character of Kev Hawkins from The Authority, another Ennis creation. A veteran of the British Army and the Special Air Service, Kev has seen combat on every continent and is a truly formidable soldier... who is also narrow-minded, slovenly, foul-mouthed, often manipulated, somewhat bigoted and perpetually broke. He's by no means an exception: throughout his own miniseries, most of his SAS friends are shown to be similarly low-class and cash-strapped, doing what they do because that life is all they're good at. So, yes, they may be horrifyingly lethal, but they're certainly not glamorous.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_e6267766	comment	Although in the hierarchy as detailed in other Star Wars Legends media, ARC Troopers are even more elite than Commandos. 'If you want the job done, send 100 Clone Troopers, 4 Commandos, or 1 ARC Trooper.'
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_e69b860	comment	Chronopia has a similar fixation for elites that Mutant Chronicles from the same company has. Among the many factions, there are the Deathseekers of the Blackblood Empire and these fanatical Master Swordsman are the Praetorian Guard for the Ogre Emperor. There's also the Repulsar Knights who are the ultra-heavily armored elite warriors of the Firstborn and their One King and their dreaded Maiming Polearms have dismembered many foes. But perhaps even more notable than Repulsar Knights are the Black Sisters. The Black Sisters are a symbol of brotherhood between the Firstborn and the Sons of Chronos, these barbarian swordswomen serve as elite warriors and wandering judges for the Firstborn and 3 companies of them will always be guarding the One King.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_e8c1a9e4	comment	Karen Traviss' Republic Commando Series does something similar with the Clone Wars era troopers. The ARC Troopers (Advanced Recon Commandos) are the elite of the clone army, and the ones charged with special forces missions. "The Nulls," Kal Skirata's squad, are elite even within that community; the very first batch of ARC troopers, they're somewhat more erratic and harder to control than their peers, which originally led the Kaminoans to want them eliminated. Skirata instead adopted them and eventually trained them into the best unit of infiltrators and spies in the clone army.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_e9cb2780	comment	Averted in the Gears of War series, where all the main characters are their world's equivalent of regular enlisted men who keep stumbling into critical situations. The Onyx Guard, the actual elite of the COG military, only appear a couple times in the expanded universe, and get utterly slaughtered every time they do.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_eaaf321d	comment	Baten Kaitos Origins has an In-Universe example with the imperial soldiers. They can either choose to wield a sword or gun, and the only incentive for the former is "the sword is a status symbol within the military".
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_edb91981	comment	World at War: Marine Raiders/1st Marine Division and 150th Rifle Division (Historically the formation whose soldiers raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag). However, the 150th Rifle Division might not exactly be considered elite, but That Other Wiki states that the 3rd Shock Army they were in, all Shock Armies in fact, received more artillery and armour support than other armies in Russia.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_eff376c4	comment	Deconstructed in Play Dirty, which highlights the brutal nature of commando missions, and the way the covert nature of such missions is often treated by officers as a license to squander the lives of the soldiers sent on them.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_f19918e3	comment	There are numerous military groups in the titular city of Metamor Keep: the Knights of the Red Stallion, the Watch, the castle guards, the Duke's bodyguards, regular patrol units, and irregular patrol units. But the majority of stories involving the military, involve its special operations force, the Long Scouts.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_f22e6bb4	comment	Black Hawk Down follows a significant portion of Task Force Ranger, which is made of several Ranger companies as well as a squadron of Delta Force operators.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_f5d65775	comment	Taken even further in his characterization of Nick Fury, where long-term Special Operations officers really do believe they can do anything, and as a result keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Worse than that, they get so addicted to the action — fighting a war how they want to, without the restraint of too much army discipline — that winning wars is no longer their goal; they just want to keep fighting them.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_fcf34eec	comment	The main character of Full Metal Panic! is part of the Special Response Team, a special forces branch of Mithril, itself an elite worldwide military anti-terrorist PMC organization armed with advanced technologies and weapon systems superior to that of any national armed forces.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_fe24dd6f	comment	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, MOHAA Spearhead and MOHAA Breakthrough. The relaunch specifically noted that you were playing as Tier 1 operators (the elite of the elite of special forces). For the short period of time when you're not, you're still playing as Army Rangers, which are the elite of the Army.
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Elites Are More Glamorous / int_ffc6c28f	comment	According to the narrator of Starship Troopers the entire military consist of elite members. At least by the standards of armies past. This is at least true of the Mobile Infantry, the service branch the narrator is in. Also, there are no desk jobs for active service members in the MI. If a job can be done by a civilian, it is (those requiring military experience are done by retired/disabled veterans). About the closest an MI can get to a non-combat position is Drill Instructor (and the one of these we hear the most about quietly complains a couple of times about not being in combat, and by the end of the novel he's allowed to return to the front).
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Girls' Frontline / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Halo Legends / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Psycho-Pass Providence / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Resident Evil: Vendetta / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Lazarus (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Marshal Law (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Sgt. Rock (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Halo Graphic Novel (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Transformers (2019) (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
X-Wing Rogue Squadron (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Star Fox / Comicbook	seeAlso	Elites Are More Glamorous
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Halo: Chimera Rising (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Here We Go Again! (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Heroes And Allies / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Elites Are More Glamorous
Manifest Destiny (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Boysof 85 / Fan Fic / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Tiberium Wars / Fan Fic / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
RWBY: Destiny of Remnant (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Last Alarm (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Phoenix Connexion (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Triforce Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The War of Drekis (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Things Left Behind (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
This Was Easier on the Tabletop (Fanfic) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
A Bridge Too Far / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Accident Man / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Act of Valor / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ah Boys to Men / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
American Sniper / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Apocalypse Now / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Basic / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Behind Enemy Lines / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Black Hawk Down / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Black Panther (2018) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Blood Diamond / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Captain America: The First Avenger / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Captain America: The Winter Soldier / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Captain Marvel (2019) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Con Air / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Deadly Prey / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Dog Soldiers / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Dunkirk / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Elysium / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Expend4bles / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Extraction / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
First Blood / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
G.I. Jane / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Green Zone / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Heartbreak Ridge / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Helios / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Hit Team / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ilang: The Wolf Brigade / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Independence Day: Resurgence / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Jason Bourne / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Lifeforce (1985) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
London Has Fallen / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Mad Max / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Man on Fire / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Man on Fire (2004) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Michael Collins / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Midway (2019) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Most Wanted / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Play Dirty / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Red Dawn (1984) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Red Dawn (2012) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Savages / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Saving Private Ryan / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Sicario / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
6 Days / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Spectral / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Tears of the Sun / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Tenet / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Beekeeper / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Eagle Has Landed / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Equalizer / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Foreigner (2017) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Green Berets / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Last of the Mohicans / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Longest Day / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Predator / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Rock / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Three Kings / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Toy Soldiers / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Transformers: Dark of the Moon / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
28 Weeks Later / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Universal Soldier / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
War Machine / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Yamato / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Yesterday (2002) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Heavy Object / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Agent G / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Clear and Present Danger / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Decades of Darkness / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Down to a Sunless Sea / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Dune / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Generation Kill / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Halo: The Cole Protocol / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Heavy Object / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Imperial Guard / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Invasion! / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Jack Reacher / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
John Rain / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Kings of the Wyld / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Lone Survivor / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Metamor Keep / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Outlaw Platoon / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Rainbow Six / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Reach for the Skies / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Red Rising / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Reflexive Fire / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Republic Commando Series / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Sharpe / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Guardians (Victor Milan) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Legacy of the Glorious / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Lightbringer Series / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Survivor / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Tokyo Ravens / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Without Remorse / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
X-Wing Series / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
ActionChatroom	seeAlso	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ralph Bagnold	seeAlso	Elites Are More Glamorous
RealpolitikCIV	seeAlso	Elites Are More Glamorous
Black Lagoon (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Blank Slate (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Bloody Monday (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Deadman Wonderland (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Dolls (2005) (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Gunslinger Girl (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Inuyashiki (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Jormungand (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Master Keaton (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Five Star Stories (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Rose of Versailles (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ultraman (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Under Ninja (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Until Death Do Us Part (Manga) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Freedom City Play By Post (Roleplay) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Gundam Seed Destiny Project R (Roleplay) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
To Boldly Go... A Starfleet Quest (Roleplay) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Who Needs Harmony (Roleplay) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Agent X / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
BG: Personal Bodyguard / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Band of Brothers / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Batwoman (2019) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Crisis (2017) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
D.☆P. / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Deadliest Warrior / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Descendants of the Sun / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Fauda / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Forged in Fire / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Gang Related / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Lost in Space (2018) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Luke Cage (2016) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Narcos / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Nova / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Obliterated / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Reacher / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
SEAL Team / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
7Days / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
7 Days (1998) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Shadow and Bone / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Sharpe / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Shooter / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Sons of Guns / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Special Ops: Lioness / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Surviving The Cut / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Professionals / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Recruit (2022) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Resident / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Unit / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Tiger Cubs / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Training Day / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ultimate Force / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Delta Green (Tabletop Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Flames of War (Tabletop Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Mutant Chronicles (Tabletop Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Only War (Tabletop Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Space 1889 (Tabletop Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Strike Legion (Tabletop Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Others (2015) (Tabletop Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
ARMA (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ace Combat Infinity (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Aion (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
BattleTech (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
BattleTech (2018) (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Battlefield (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Battlefield 3 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Binary Domain (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Black (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Black (2006) (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Call of Duty (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Call of Duty: Ghosts (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Call of Duty: WWII (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Command & Conquer: Generals (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Commandos (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Conflict: Desert Storm (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Counter-Strike (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Crusader Kings III (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Darkspore (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Dead Space 3 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Delta Force (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Empire: Total War (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Entropy : Zero - Uprising (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Expeditions: Rome (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Front Mission (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Front Mission (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Front Mission 3 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Full Spectrum Warrior (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Geist (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Gekokujo (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ghost Recon (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Ghost Recon 2 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Halo 3: ODST (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Halo: Combat Evolved (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
House of Ashes (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Lethal Enforcers (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Medal of Honor (2010) (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Medal of Honor: Frontline (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Operation Wolf (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Outriders (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
PARANOIA (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Persona 4: Arena (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Project Reality (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Rainbow Six (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Rainbow Six 3 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Rainbow Six Siege (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Resident Evil (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Rise of Nations (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Rush'n Attack (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Splinter Cell (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Squad (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Star Wars: Republic Commando (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Starship Troopers (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Starship Troopers: Terran Command (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Stronghold Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Syrian Warfare (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Bleachers (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Silver Case (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Thing (2002) (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Titanfall (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Total War: Shogun 2 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Total War: Warhammer (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Valkyria Revolution (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Zeus: Master of Olympus (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Lovebrush Chronicles (Visual Novel) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Astartes (Web Animation) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Unclassified Encounter (Web Animation) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Hit-Monkey / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Pro Wrestling ZERO1 (Wrestling) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
xXx: Return of Xander Cage / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous

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