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Most Russian characters in media, at least since the Cold War started, are depicted as hard fightin', heavy-drinkin', manly, boorish creatures. Even their females border on being The Baroness or the Femme Fatale (or alternatively, Brawn Hilda). The only soft and sophisticated Russian is most definitely The Sociopath. And before the Cold War it was a Wild Communist, and even before, in the 19th century, it was a hard-fighting, heavy drinkin', boorish guy in furs, with a wild beard and a pet bear. So this trope predates the television by some 150 years (it goes all the way back to 1813, in fact). And it would be probably even older if people outside the country itself before 1813 had registered Russia's existence. One wonders for the reason for this trope: is it the cold winters of Russia, or their being raised on unsophisticated food, or something completely different? But that's rarely answered. Sub-Trope of Had to Be Sharp and Grim Up North. Often overlaps with, if not providing an outright Justification for, Husky Russkie. Somewhat related, also, with Russian Guy Suffers Most. |
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In The Northman, during the Time Skip Prince Amleth became a One-Man Army after spending two decades fighting in Kievan Rus' as The Berserker with an Army of Thieves and Whores. | |
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Collar 6: Stella, Claire, and through them Ginger. It's also stated that even Russian subs tend to have a dominant streak. | |
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Invoked in an early episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit featuring a Russian Femme Fatale (and sodomy with a banana) — one character actually said that any woman who had survived for any length of time in The New Russia couldn't be anything but a self-preserving borderline sociopath. | |
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This is true to an extent in Nikolai Dante, even though most of the characters are Russian. Dante himself was introduced as an aggressive, drunken lout, though he has since matured into a heroic, badass freedom fighter. Katarina's pirates have a reasonable chance of beating the navy in a sea battle and then celebrating with several bottles of cognac, Vladimir Makarov is closely based on Ivan the Terrible, and most of the Romanov men fit the trope to some extent. And then there's Lulu. | |
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Alexei Stukov from StarCraft is decidedly from Russia, with the name, accent, and references to his homeland to boot, to the point where his introduction scene mentions his love of vodka. He is the only Terran in the entire franchise who retains his free will after being infested by the Zerg (even Kerrigan had to be freed from the Overmind's influence first) and gained great power in the process, to the point that he can annihilate a Xel'naga with a single blast. | |
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Boris from the Samurai Jack episode "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters" is the most large and muscular of the bounty hunters. | |
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Bizarre example (from a bizarre character) in Nova. Richard ends up on a space station called Knowhere and ends up teaming up with Cosmo, a telepathic Russian Cosmonaut dog, against a Zombie Apocalypse. When Cosmo is fighting the zombies, he says: | |
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X-Men: Colossus, though deep down he's a sensitive soul with a talent for drawing. Omega Red plays it straight. Also, Mikhail Rasputin (Colossus' evil brother). |
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Girls und Panzer introduces Pravda High School, a Hokkaido-based school whose students (all Japanese) emulate Russian stereotypes, including a logo featuring a pair of scissors and a set of rulers suspiciously arranged like the Soviet emblem. Pravda is also the defending champion from last year's National High School Tankery Tournament (ending a nine-year streak by the German-themed Kuromorimine Women's College from Kumamoto) and the semifinals opponent of Ooarai (whose leader, Miho Nishizumi, was, coincidentally, the flag tank operator of Kuromorimine from last year). | |
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The Omar from Deus Ex: Invisible War. Descended from Russian scientists finding a way to survive the Collapse, they are immune to environmental hazards like fire, toxins, & radiation, although they are rather mediocre combatants. In an ending where the Dentons, Templars, & Illuminati were destroyed, they inherited the Earth after humanity destroyed themselves in a nuclear war. |
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Coraline: Invoked by Funny Foreigner neighbour Mr. Bobinski: | |
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Michael Strogoff: The titular character is able to appears stoic during his travel in Siberia and even to look and act as if he was effectively blinded by the Tartars. | |
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Briggs from Fullmetal Alchemist; the Easterners they keep the border on also seem to fit this, as their soldiers seem tougher than the Amestrians. Even moreso because Drachma (the alluded-to eastern nation) is pretty plainly a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to Russia. |
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On Seven Days, the Americans launch a nation-wide search for a man tough enough to survive the rigors of time travel. When the Russians attempt to build their own time machine they proudly declare "Anyone who can survive a winter here will be fine." | |
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In the Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game RPG, Bison was given an origin as a Soviet mercenary whose unique style, Ler Drit, was based on Soviet assassination techniques supplemented with enhanced jumping techniques and Psychic Powers, because it seemed the most believable origin for him. | |
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The Dresden Files: Sanya is both a Husky Russkie and a Scary Black Man, and one of the biggest, most muscular normal humans in the series. He is also a genuinely good person, worthy to wield Esperacchius, the Holy Sword of Hope. | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, Far Überwald (A canonical region populated by people with a rather Russian aura to them) is a place of freezing cold winters, parchingly hot summers, endless Steppe, a city called Blondograd that endured a long terrible siege, and of course vodka. When witches start to come out of Far Überwald in significant numbers to train in Lancre, they demonstrate traditional dances at the Witch Trials. This includes long sharp sabres, intricate dance moves, and an element of Dual Wielding verging on Flynning. Lancre's Morris Dancers are suitably impressed. The Rodinian-led Air Watch are discussed in more depth in The Price of Flight. |
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In Iron Man 2 Ivan Vanko seems to be Made of Iron thanks to having survived a lot of adversity in a Siberian prison. Technically, Natasha Romanoff also—she claims in Avengers that she "used to be" Russian. | |
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Scar Tissue: Dmitri is a Russian Child Soldier that is portrayed like a tough, extremely competent Super-Soldier and a rude smartass. Reinforced trope, since the author chose making him a Russian because he could not think of something more badass-sounding than a giant robot Russian pilot. | |
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The Daily Show even did a segment on the subject with that exact take. | |
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The MMA fighter Koba from Warrior is based on the real MMA fighter Fedor Emelianenko, who was also a stoic, undefeated and greatly feared Russian. He borrows his nom de guerre from Stalin, who in turn borrowed it from a notorious Georgian outlaw. | |
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Vladimir Lem in the Finnish 3rd person shooter Max Payne is an example of the "cultured but evil" variety. | |
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Iron Kingdoms: The people of Khador (the local Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Russia) tend to be tough-as-nails hard-fighting bearded men in fur pelts and carrying big axes. | |
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Russian ArmBAR! ? | |
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In Saints Row: The Third, Female Voice 2 for the Boss is Russian. Some of her idle chatter if the controls are left untouched for a while has her hearken back to her Hilariously Abusive Childhood, claiming it made her into who she is today. | |
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Seemingly aware of this trope, Rocky takes to training in the frozen Russian wilderness during Rocky IV in order to forge himself into a weapon able to stand against his boxing opponent, Russia's seemingly invincible Ivan Drago. | |
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Barrayarans in the Vorkosigan Saga are in many ways Russia Recycled In Space. At the beginning of the series they are presented as warlike, ferocious, and superstitious, hard-bitten folk who live on a planet just entering into civilization. | |
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American Dad!: In one episode, Steve befriends an ex-Soviet spy who helps him build a rocket for a competition. To toughen him up, he teaches him to eat Russian turnips, which are so tough Steve's mouth begins to bleed upon biting into one. | |
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The Mafiya in Black Lagoon. Especially Balalaika. Especially if the omakes are to be believed. Balalaika's sergeant Boris was once a scrawny prettyboy but Mother Russia's military training turned him into a Husky Russkie. | |
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A female example is Zarya from Overwatch (overlapping with Brawn Hilda), who was a champion Russian weightlifter before becoming a soldier. Her record for the Snatch and Clean & Jerk is 512kg, which is higher than even the Men's current real-world record. She's so strong that she uses a Particle Cannon, which is normally vehicle-mounted, as a hand-held weapon. Notably has cross-universe dialogue in Heroes of the Storm when teamed up with Stukov above. | |
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Assassin's Creed: The Fall reveals the Russian tsars run on Rank Scales with Asskicking, as shown when Alexander III takes down an Assassin unarmed, after walking off his train crashing, and handing over his piece of Eden just so the fight would be fair. | |
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Danger 5: Spoofed with Ilsa, who shrugs off being whipped by Nazi torturers. "This is nothing compared to Siberia." Later when facing doppelgangers of the team, the fake Claire is exposed by a test that plays on her emotions, but it's noted that the test won't work on Ilsa as "Russians don't have emotions". | |
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In A Scotsman in Egypt, the Highlanders under Angus the Mauler who invade Novgorod, find to their horror that no matter how much they cut or dismember their Russian attackers, they just keep coming. One Russian soldier gets the top of his skull smashed off, exposing his brain, and he still has the energy to swing a cudgel at the Highlander responsible. Too bad Angus was even tougher... and even crazier. | |
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Daylight's End: Former Russian commando Vlad is good with a gun and is also one of the few people willing and able to take on zombies up close with a knife. | |
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The Hogan's Heroes episode "A Russian Is Coming" featured Igor Piotkin, a downed Russian pilot who was strong but not very intelligent. | |
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From Armageddon (1998), Lev Andropov of the space station. So tough, he was on the outside of an "asteroid rover" when it jumped a chasm, and fixes the space shuttle's navigation system by assaulting it, because "This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station!" | |
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Silver Spoon: Alexandra, Hachiken's Russian sister-in-law. A head taller than everyone else, part-Cossack, great horsewoman, thinks -20 Celsius is "a bit warm", immediately assumes the titular spoon is a warning against poisoning, can stomach Shingo's cooking. | |
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Dr. Death has the American doctors Henderson and Kirby interviewing two Russians who were involved in a company with Duntsch and mention that so far, everyone's been scared to talk forthcomingly about him. They bluntly reply that they're not scared—they're Russian. | |
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Red Rabbit: Defied. Jack points out that as much as both the Russians and Americans like to play up this trope with various levels of jokiness, the sad and sorry truth is that the lower standards of nutrition and healthcare in the USSR mean that Ivan Conscriptovich is not going to be as strong or able to withstand adverse conditions as his US counterpart. | |
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Viktor Vasko from Lackadaisy: Even though he was born in Austria-Hungary, Viktor Vasko a large, stoic enforcer for a speakeasy who doesn't smile much. | |
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Mikhail on Lost: stoic, evil, gives Sayid a run for his money in combat, and nigh unkillable. He also has Dharma vodka at the Flame (a sentence that allegedly means something). | |
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A one-shot parody of the Superman comics called The Man of Rust has the Lex Luthor expy summon all the Man of Rusts from all the alternate Earths. One of these is from Soviet Earth. When all the Men of Rust start fighting each other, and one of them uses his Freeze Breath on the Soviet Man of Rust, he just shrugs it off and says, "Bah! Your freeze breath is nothing compared to Siberian winters!" | |
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The Gladiator, a game set in ancient China, have a Russian ambassador named Oleg (who changed his name to Ko Tien-Lei to blend in) as one of the playable heroes. He's The Big Guy who's easily the largest character in the game, and a Lightning Bruiser who fights with his fists and deals severe damage while unarmed. | |
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Red from Orange Is the New Black is one of the most badass inmates and effectively the boss of them in season one. | |
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Total War: Warhammer III: While Kislev is a Culture Chop Suey of Russia, Poland, and other Slavs, it definitely runs with this. One of their defining mechanics is each unit going on a Last Stand for thirty seconds when other factions' units would usually rout. Almost all of their foot troops are The Musketeer and are tough in melee combat, be it an archer or gunner. Furthermore, rather than use the same skeleton that the other human factions (the Empire, Bretonnia, and Grand Cathay) have for their soldiers, the Kislevites instead use the bulkier skeleton that the Warriors of Chaos and Norsca use (with the exception of any female soldiers and the Patriarchs). | |
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WWE's Vladimir Kozlov (technically, he's Ukranian, but still.) | |
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Vladimir and Anatoly Ranskahov in Daredevil (2015) do start off as this trope when it comes to dealing with the man in the mask, but they are no match for Wilson Fisk. Lampshaded when James Wesley visits their taxi company's garage on Fisk's behalf to solicit an offer. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Averted: Pavel Chekov, albeit a trained Starfleet officer, is young, short, and not remarkably physically or emotionally sturdy, and needs rescuing from time to time. | |
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Years before Kolzov and Rusev were even twinkles in the eyes of their parents, the WWF had a feared Russian wrestler in Nikolai Volkoff, a Croatian, Yugoslavia native who – when he began his most famous gimmick – adopted Moscow, Russia, as his home. During the early years of his gimmick, in the mid-to-late 1970s when he was a top contender for Bruno Sammartino's WWF title, he demonstrated his brute strength by crushing apples with his bare hands during television interviews. The strength aspect was de-emphasized during his 1980s run; it was still implied that he was strong and that he gained it while a youth in his "homeland" Soviet Union, but that took a back seat to his outspoken hate for America and his infamous pre-match singing of the Soviet National Anthem. | |
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Punch-Out!!: Soda Popinski (originally Vodka Drunkenski), the Muscovite boxer, is very strong, considering only Mr. Sandman and presumably Super Macho Man were able to beat him until Little Mac came along. | |
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In The West Wing episode Galileo (S 2 E 9) Bartlett berates the Russian Ambassador for being stubborn, and asks where she gets the nerve. Her reply: 'A long harsh winter, mister President'. | |
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Fate/Grand Order: Russia was the only country to survive in the first Lostbelt, a world where a meteor strike caused a brutal ice age. The Arc Villains of the Lostbelt are Ivan the Terrible, who's become more giant mammoth than man, and Anastasia, who's Spirit Origin was corrupted in exchange for power. Both of them fall back on Russia's ability to survive brutal winters when it comes to boasting, with Anastasia proclaiming Chaldea's home base of Antartica being nothing compared to Lostbelt Russia. | |
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Russia from Hetalia: Axis Powers. | |
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Psychonauts: Mikhail Bulgakov is the only Russian kid at camp. He's possibly one of the strongest kids there and he's obsessed with wrestling. He's kind of scrawny (not at all a Husky Russkie), but he's strong enough to wrestle bears. Almost every single comment he leaves on everyone's Character Blogs involves him figuring out how he'd defeat them in a wrestling match. | |
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The Russian Overkill plugin for Doom is made of this trope, among many others. | |
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In Downfall, Adolf Hitler believes in his dying testimony that the hardy, determined Russians are the stronger and more deserving race than the Germans, and that their victory will then put them into conflict against the decadent democracies of the west where they will prevail as well. | |
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Spider-Man villain Kraven the Hunter was a big game hunter in Africa before he moved to New York to harass the web-slinger. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The Abomination plays this straight. | |
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In Fairy Tail, though not Russian per se, the name "Makarov Dreyar" itself really sounds it, and is an in-universe Memetic Badass. His old comrade Polyushka has a name that is most likely Russian or at least Eastern Slavic, and she is perhaps the only Badass Normal in the series. Bonus points for obviously being based on Slavic witches. |
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Transformers: Animated: The Russian-accented Decepticon Strika is built like a titanium outhouse and turns into a futuristic tank, making her one of the largest fighters in her faction. | |
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Team Fortress 2: The Heavy's fists do the same amount of damage as a sword in game. He also carries a gun about as large as himself. He has twice the health of the other tiny baby classes, without wearing any armor. And he can kill you by pointing at you and yelling "Pow!" It's later revealed his family is just as good at it: Even the younger, less corpulent ones can go hunting for large bears for dinner and have done so for years, and the biggest of the lot, Zhanna, regularly kills men and robots with her bare hands once she joins Soldier in it. | |
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The Punisher: Villain General Nikolai Alexandrovich Zakharo A.K.A The Man Of Stone, exemplifies this trope. In fact, at one point he refers to Frank as a Russian who just happened to be born American. | |
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The colossal blonde hitman known simply as "The Russian" from The Punisher (2004) (who is almost impervious to pain). And he was actually toned down from his appearance in the original comics, which detailed his rather... extensive backstory as a mercenary, assassin and sometime spree killer who went freelance after being deemed too Axe-Crazy for Spetznas, which takes some doing. | |
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The Wire: Sergei Malatogv claims that American prisons are not real prisons as he has been a "guest" in the actually harsh Ukrainian/Soviet ones. | |
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Oz: Asserted by prisoner Nikolai Stanislofsky. After seven years in a Russian gulag, he expects no trouble from Oz. He didn't expect Ryan O'Reily. | |
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7th Sea has equivalents of 17th century CE European nations. It also has each nation prioritize one of the game's basic stats. Guess what is preferred in Ussura, counterpart to Russia? | |
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Rank 3 in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is a Soviet cosmonaut who got stuck in space until well after the Soviet Union's fall. He's notable for being the first boss in the game with a One-Hit Kill. | |
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The Rodinian-led Air Watch are discussed in more depth in The Price of Flight. | |
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Sandra on the Rocks: Tatiana invokes the trope, even extending it to choice of search engines. Sandra's doubts are plausible; Tatiana is in fact hell-bent on breaking Sandra. | |
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Ivan from Devil's Third is a heavily-tattooed, always-shirtless badass with a thick Russian accent. | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV: Dimitri Rascalov seems quite amiable at first. Then, he bitch-slaps you and starts betraying and backstabbing every single person he comes across. Also, Rascalov's apparent calm and impassivity even in the worst circumstances fits the trope of Russian toughness. It is revealed he's actually a huge thorazine addict. | |
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Chess: Between 1948 and mid-2000s, chess world champions represented either the Soviet Union or Russia, with the exception of 1972-75, when Bobby Fischer took the title from Boris Spassky. Even Fischer was called by some "the epitome of Soviet chess school", as he learned Russian specifically to study Soviet chess literature. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows features a Cossack who simply refuses to give up. | |
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Vitaly in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. | |
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Dirk Pitt Adventures: In Raise The Titanic, when Dana Seagram unhesitatingly complies with the Soviet sailor's demands to remove her clothes, she promptly demonstrates just how much of a strong-willed woman she is by taunting them, and when the Russians are rendered speechless, she adds: "What's the matter, Ivan? Too used to muscle-bound, hod-carrying Russian women?" | |
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Street Fighter: Zangief is one of the most iconic examples of this trope in video games. He is the original Mighty Glacier of the series and his playstyle revolves around high-damage throws. | |
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"Iron Joe" (read, Stalin) from a Histeria! sketch with the WWII allies as superheroes. He was modeled after The Hulk and his favourite tactic was "Wipe out my opposition with famine and secret police!" That despite the fact that Stalin was not Russian. | |
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Team Russia from Eyeshield 21 is led by the world's strongest lifter. He gets beaten by a middle schooler just a few chapters later. | |
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A common practice is to take a Creepypasta and rewrite it to take place in Soviet Russia (with Funetik Aksent to match). The main joke being that whatever horror is supposed to be menacing the protagonists of the pasta is no big deal if they are Soviet Russians, because they live through worse on a daily basis. | |
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The Sopranos: A one-legged, stoic and hardnosed Svetlana remarks that Americans don't know what a real problem is. They live an easy existence compared to the average miserable life in Russia/USSR and yet they are wimpy complainers. When Janice, a mafia princess, steals her artificial leg and holds it hostage in a dispute over money, Svetlana simply has two Russian toughs beat her up and take the leg back. She gets away with it. Valery from "Pine Barrens" is a Russian ex-Spetnaz who seemingly gets his throat crushed and his head shot, yet still manages to escape into the pine barrens, never to be seen again. |
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Babylon 5: Susan Ivanova is a stoic, no-nonsense soldier who even goes down in legend as Ivanova the Strong. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's Worf, while already strong as a Klingon, likely got the strength to survive the alien of the week from his adopted Slavic parents (exact nationality uncertain, may have been Belarusian or Ukrainian based on brief references). He even mentioned that his father took him camping in the Urals during his childhood. | |
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