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Oddly Overtrained Security

90 statements
16 feature instances
15 referencing feature instances

Oddly Overtrained Security	type	FeatureClass
Oddly Overtrained Security	label	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security	page	OddlyOvertrainedSecurity
Oddly Overtrained Security	comment	They are elite, and have the best equipment and training their government can provide. They're carrying rifles and wearing body armor and helmets, looking ready for battle. If you ever meet one, be prepared to quake in your boots and change your shirt from the nervous sweat as they step out of their vehicle, walk over, and ask... Despite being the best of the best, they are also everywhere and doing every security oriented job, including traffic cop. The reasons are various: laziness or lack of research on the part of the writers, Rule of Cool, conservation of animation or costuming budget, etc. This can operate at different scales; it would be unusual to see special operations soldiers guarding every US Embassy (normally guarded by Marines), just as it would be unusual if every security guard, police officer, and traffic cop was a Marine, every clerk and retail worker was a cop, or darn near everyone was wearing a combat uniform. Some examples may be justified by the story; for example, an area under military occupation or martial law will often see soldiers in many roles held by policemen under more normal circumstances. Contrast The Guards Must Be Crazy. May result in Shoplift and Die.
Oddly Overtrained Security	fetched	2024-01-21T13:15:36Z
Oddly Overtrained Security	parsed	2024-01-21T13:15:36Z
Oddly Overtrained Security	processingComment	Dropped link to ReassignedToAntarctica: Not an Item - FEATURE
Oddly Overtrained Security	processingComment	Dropped link to StarWars: Not an Item - CAT
Oddly Overtrained Security	processingComment	Dropped link to TruthInTelevision: Not an Item - CAT
Oddly Overtrained Security	isPartOf	DBTropes
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_1a4438ee	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_1a4438ee	comment	Lampshaded and eventually justified in All Guardsmen Party. The party is harassed by an oddly determined and overarmed traffic cop who stops at nothing to take them down. It turns out that this particular cop isn't an ordinary member of the planet's police force—he's an Arbites, one of the Imperium's interplanetary law enforcers, who was tasked with managing the planet's whole police force, and got stuck managing traffic.
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_1a4438ee	featureApplicability	1.0
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_4d551426	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_4d551426	comment	Lampshaded and exploited in A Miracle of Science, when a trio of Mad Scientists break into a government facility that's disguised as an ordinary recycling plant... with four security guards with rifles posted outside. The ringleader notes that this was an important clue to the location of the McGuffin they're trying to steal, and then for an encore he uses binoculars to look over a guard's shoulder when he enters the code to unlock the door when he goes inside to take a leak.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_53a73ca0	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_53a73ca0	comment	Predating Stormtroopers are the Clone Troopers. Despite the very lownote Relative to the size of the war they're fighting - there may be millions of them but the Republic has millions of worlds to protect, so if they divided them up equally they might have enough men to give each world a garrison of one squad canon number of clones and several mentions in story of how tightly stretched they are, Star Wars: The Clone Wars has them doing everything from street patrol to prison guard duties. Justified, albeit thinly, by the fact that the Republic didn't have a standing army beforehand; recruiting and training regular troops was still a work in progress when the war ended.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_59735062	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_59735062	comment	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: You will see heavily armed police including some in Powered Armor and supplanted by Attack Drone swarms in every corner of every street in the â€œAugâ€� sections of Prague. This is because mechanically augmented people are walking weapons and the â€œAug incidentâ€� of Deus Ex: Human Revolution has resulted in the segregation and systematic persecution of â€œaugsâ€�.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Video Game)	hasFeature	Oddly Overtrained Security / int_59735062
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_5995d4d5	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_5995d4d5	comment	Spies Like Us. An abandoned movie theatre is guarded by plainclothes men armed with automatic weapons. This is Rule of Funny as the 'theatre' is actually a working component of the Strategic Defence Initiative.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_ac4b6a62	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content uses it with a good amount of lampshading when a lieutenant on a space station is charged with carrying out standard security checks on new arrivals. This is despite the presence of an AI that can do molecular scans on them and their coming from a spaceport, which presumably has security of its own.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_accb04fd	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_accb04fd	comment	In The Matrix: Path of Neo there's a former cop turned security guard in charge of an abandoned church, the worst thing going on in it is graffiti.
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The Matrix: Path of Neo (Video Game)	hasFeature	Oddly Overtrained Security / int_accb04fd
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_b4fe32c9	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Parodied in Invader Zim with Slab Rankle, a mall cop who seems to think he's some kind of military super commander, doing stuff like kidnapping and imprisoning misbehaving customers, boobytrapping the mall with lethal obstacles, and creating a horde of zombies to do his bidding.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_b712435c	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_b712435c	comment	In Leverage, a large processed food company hired ex-CIA agents to protect their recipes! According to Nate, it's common practice in the industry.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_bcadd7cb	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Justified in the Planet Cadia from Warhammer 40,000. The planet is right next to the Eye of Terror and is the first line of defense against Chaos incursions. With a conscription rate equal to the birth rate, there is no difference between 'military' and 'civilian' in Cadia. What we call military camouflage is everyday fashion in Cadia, city planning is done as with defensive lines, and Cadian kids learn to shoot before they learn to walk.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_bf471bbe	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_bf471bbe	comment	Men in Black II: J re-recruits K from his retirement at a post office. The retiree deals with a spilled coffee by issuing orders like he's containing a nuclear breach. This scene does admittedly take place in the sorting room, and getting spilled coffee all over someone else's mail is a great way to get yourself in a whole hell of a lot of trouble, but it definitely hints to J that his old partner might not be entirely happy in retirement.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_c2297a9c	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd has this to a society crippling degree. The Judges are very well trained, very thinly spread, and apparently the only law enforcement or security force in the Mega City. A larger number of less trained people could go a long way towards keeping a lid on things. Judge Dredd writer Michael Carroll has said that the story he's always wanted to do is about the people who go through the gruelling process of becoming a highly-trained Judge ... and end up as a supply clerk or similar. The Judges do not have civilian support staff outside of Auxiliaries, who are worked pretty much to the bone. Judges have wound up doing more menial tasks if they fail their final assessment or a fitness evaluation upon returning to the streets after an injury. This can result in a meat wagon driver, sewage inspector, or control dispatcher with fifteen years of Academy Of Law training plus however many years of street experience.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_c75d67d	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest. When this happens it's a sign that the apparently innocuous business the protagonists are trying to break into this week is actually an NSA Black Site.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_ca07828e	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_ca07828e	comment	In The Unit, Jonas, Mack, and Charles spend an episode bodyguarding a prima donna singer because the brass doesn't want anything bad to happen to such a high-profile artist. Nearly everyone is unaware that the three of them are highly skilled special forces operators.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_d6c9c0a4	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	An episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has Togusa go undercover to investigate a facility for youths suffering from "cyberbrain addiction". The first sign something's up is the presence of an 8 foot tall cyborg covered in solid metal armor. Unlike many other examples of this trope where it's treated as being normal by the characters, Togusa immediately becomes suspicious of the facility because of it.
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Oddly Overtrained Security / int_da73059	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Oddly Overtrained Security / int_da73059	comment	The Living Daylights opens with the Double-0 section taking part in a training exercise to attack a radar installation on the Rock of Gibraltar. Their opponents in the exercise are the Special Air Service, who are not used for mundane guarding duties.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Oddly Overtrained Security	processingCategory2	Adverbly Adjective Noun
Oddly Overtrained Security	processingCategory2	Insecurity System
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Perfect Masks MHA (Fanfic) / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Security! (Worm) (Fanfic) / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Army of the Dead / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Chopping Mall / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Men in Black II / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
The Future: Can We Shape It? / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
The Leonard Regime / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Titus Crow / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
OddlyOverTrainedSecurity	sameAs	Oddly Overtrained Security
The Matrix: Path of Neo (Video Game) / int_a7a0afdc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
Children VS Wizards / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security
WWE (Wrestling) / int_e30df7fc	type	Oddly Overtrained Security

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