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Redshirt Army

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Redshirt Army	comment	The Cavalry has arrived! Unfortunately, they're all Red Shirts... and they all graduated from the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. Uh-oh. The Hero, who may or may not have any special training or powers, is to be escorted into a "hot zone" by a team of Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Space Marines, a SWAT Team, or some other heavily-armed and, one would assume, well-trained unit. Invariably, mere minutes into the mission, they've all been ambushed and killed off by the platoon-load, leaving only the hero alive to finish the job. Happens all the time in action shows; so often, in fact, that it makes one wonder how these guys ever passed muster (heck, even survived long enough) for assignment to an elite military or security force if they drop like mayflies in every tactical situation. This often massive loss of life will rarely be noted by anyone or have any direct effect on the plot, unless the heroes need to emote over how senseless the situation is. These guys are spear carriers in the finest Joseph Campbell tradition. Provides a convenient demonstration of just how scary the villain is and also explains why the villain gets away all the time (at least at the time). Please note: this Trope is actually very inaccurate when you compare it to Real Life. If you were to watch every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, count the number of casualties that the Enterprise had, and then compare that to an actual military, you'd see that Kirk's record as a leader in this regard is excellent, far better than any general in U.S. history. Even war heroes like George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower had proportionately more casualties among their troops.note It has been suggested that it would be more appropriate to compare Kirk's casualty rate to units on exploratory, rather than combat, missions. It must be remembered that the Enterprise under Kirk's command participated in multiple combat missions against warships with superior weaponry (such as in the episodes "Balance of Terror" and "The Doomsday Machine" to name a few). This is sometimes justified by the idea that the doomed Red Shirts are actually quite competent, especially in other areas, but they've never had any formal training in how to fight beings that can kill them simply if you look at them funny. In other words, take The Worf Effect and apply it to an entire military. As the singular Red Shirt is the "good" counterpart to Evil Minions, the Redshirt Army is the "good" counterpart to the endless hordes of Mooks (and thus where to go when looking for easily-killed bad guys). The Badass Army is the logical opposite to this; take note how often (as in the example above) Red Shirt Army is, in fact, a subversion of Badass Army via The Worf Effect. Another opposite are the Men of Sherwood, who aren't quite badass enough to qualify as a Badass Army, but who are at least competent enough at their jobs not to be wiped out on the spot. See Gideon Ploy for when no such army is arriving. See also Vanilla Unit, which tend to make up playable Redshirt Armies. Often precedes Monster Threat Expiration. See Also: A-Team Firing, Cannon Fodder, Conservation of Ninjutsu, Curb-Stomp Battle, Lemming Cops Also: A Red Shirt that has, through luck, moxie, or through the endearment of the fanbase may become a Mauve Shirt...clothed in the most powerful of Plot Armor. The Mauve Shirt will often accompany the army as their leader or representative...and generally makes it out alive. That is, until the Plot Armor wears off. Not to be confused with Giuseppe Garibaldi's Italian Redshirts, who were a real-life Badass Army. Or with the British Redcoats, the land component of one of the greatest military forces in history.
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Redshirt Army / int_101bfcd7	comment	In Sengoku Basara friendly camps occasionally spawn units of your own troops to defend them from enemy mooks. They're even less useful than said mooks as they'll automatically lose against anyone with a name, including enemy mooks with a named squad leader, and won't even damage enemy bosses if they show up to the boss fight.
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Redshirt Army / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Hyrulian guards in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Despite being heavily armed they are completely outclassed by the shadow beasts (the same goes for most of the NPCs) and most of them are actually shaking with fear during the encounter. The fact that Zant himself enter minutes later does not help their odds.
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Redshirt Army / int_12cae8f9	comment	The whole of the Earth Sphere Federation forces in Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer. In their defense, they were outnumbered 10,000-to-1. Nobody's going to do particularly well with those odds.
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Redshirt Army / int_1367ce42	comment	Wool: The scores of workers from Supply add a lot of useful strength and logistics to the mechanics' rebellion, but few of them have names or major roles, their leaders are killed fairly early on, and many of the remaining Supply rebels quickly desert the fight.
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Redshirt Army / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction, there's the Gamma-5 "Wrecking Crew" assault team whom are sent into the Artificial Zombies' territory alongside Tejada and the Theta team. None of the Wrecking Crew's names are given, and they all end up killed in action or taken for a Fate Worse than Death.
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Redshirt Army / int_150ce3ed	comment	In Jason and the Argonauts, Jason recruits only the best athletes and warriors in all of Greece to accompany him in his quest, but they never actually do much except distract Talos while Jason goes around to get his ankle. Oh, and those two guys who admittedly put up an admirable effort (but still both die) against the skeletons at the end. Oh, and that one guy who jumps in the sea after the traitor Acastus and subsequently gets killed in an underwater fight by said traitor.
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Redshirt Army / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach the shinigami are completely useless against ANY threat which comes to them and have to be bailed out by the main heroes. Only the Lieutenants and Captains manage to be useful and avoid this, even though they are subject to The Worf Effect at the same time. Lampshaded and acknowledged when the captains acknowledge there's maybe ten people in Soul Society who are up to fighting with Aizen, they know it, and they make up the bulk of the Gotei 13's fighting power. Also, Ichigo is apparently twice as strong as they are, which is why they suck compared to him.
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Redshirt Army / int_1cfdb84f	comment	The Senkari were intended as a redshirt army.
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Redshirt Army / int_1d290a5c	comment	All of the soldiers stationed in the castle at the beginning of Murder Princess are easily wiped out by a bunch of trolls and a Tyke Bomb mechanical doll.
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Redshirt Army / int_1d3bb251	comment	In 6 Days a Sacrifice, the final game in the Chzo Mythos, Theo has an unending supply of Trilby clones to protect him.
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Redshirt Army / int_1de234dc	comment	Averted in the Destroyermen series. USS Walker's Lemurian allies do take heavy losses over the course of the series, but they inflict casualties several orders of magnitude worse on the Grik.
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Redshirt Army / int_1e015a5d	comment	Similarly, in The Empire Strikes Back, the Rebel troops are routed at the Battle of Hoth with Luke's heroics providing much of the offense.
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Redshirt Army / int_1fc30aa6	comment	The British Army in The Last of the Mohicans fits this trope perfectly, since they not only wear actual red coats, but are unable to hit a single target in the enemy's Bad Ass Army. For that matter, they also can't land any blows during hand-to-hand combat, thereby forcing them to rely on the main protagonist's Improbable Aiming Skills to see them through.
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Redshirt Army / int_20336460	comment	Queen Deirdranna of Jagged Alliance 2 uses an actual army wearing red shirts. On high difficulty levels you get to kill hundreds of them. That is, until the ''Black Shirt'' elites show up!
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Redshirt Army / int_2161674a	comment	In The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, Leo orders one of his employees to fill out 50 character sheets for the same character. He then sends them one by one into battle just to get instantly killed. Eventually, Luster uses the "pile of dead bards" as a hiding place.
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Redshirt Army / int_2187bf22	comment	Xeelee Sequence: The Green Army combines this with Child Soldiers. Over a million die by the day fighting a Forever War with the Xeelee.
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Redshirt Army / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem green units, unless they're villagers or other non-fighting units, are suicidal. Come to think of it, most enemy units are suicidal too. Plus, in cut scenes, you frequently get to see the green units getting destroyed by fairly weak enemy units. Somewhat averted in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the tenth game of the series. Not only are the Green and Yellow units able to stand up against the enemies, some of them are just plain necessary to get by a battle with minimal casualties, and you can give orders to the yellow units, to say, block a path of enemies to serve as meat shield. If only more of them could be like the 3-13 Archer...
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Redshirt Army / int_26042b84	comment	In Avengers: The Initiative, the covert-ops Shadow Initiative is re-imagined as a redshirt army in the aftermath of Secret Invasion due to the Thunderbolts now serving that function. Consisting of choice members of the original team, third-rate villains, and Initiative washouts, the Shadow Initiative is sent into hot engagements to soften up the enemy for the big guns. Of the 14 members who went on their first mission, 8 came back alive.
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Redshirt Army / int_2615df3d	comment	The War of the Worlds (1898): The British Army is wiped out by the Martian tripods wielding heat beams and poison gas. Only artillery is effective against the machines, but the guns rarely got a first shot, let alone a second. The Martians themselves are red-shirted, courtesy of Terran microbes.
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Redshirt Army / int_265fb4f1	comment	In Hyrule Warriors, Link is joined by the knights of Hyrule for the first time. They're nowhere near as powerful as Link (or any other playable character), and they tend to die a lot, so he still has to do most of the work.
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Redshirt Army / int_26674ed5	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the Marines on the tanker get effortlessly slaughtered by Russian mercenaries, and that's just the one's posing as the crew of said tanker (as carrying assault rifles would make them suspicious). Then they just stand around doing nothing while Ocelot murders their commanding officer and sets off explosives to sink the ship. Later on, the Navy SEALs are doing pretty well until a super-speed vampire and a woman packing an energy shield and a BFG came along). To be even more fair, it did turn out that the Patriots sent them in so they would fail.
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Redshirt Army / int_26a33287	comment	The entire point of Mount & Blade is to raise one and have them fight the armies of everyone opposed to your kingdom. Or just everyone, if you feel like being a total sociopath.
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Redshirt Army / int_28b53408	comment	In F.E.A.R., the protagonist is supplemented (twice) with Delta Force squads, who are very quickly killed (twice). The first group of three are slain by Alma near the very start of the game, and the second group of two are instantly shot to death by Replica soldiers as the helicopter carrying them to the Armacham building lands.
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Redshirt Army / int_29f0502c	comment	The Ottoman Army in Dracula Untold. A Million Mook March against a small number of vampires, while Dracula settles things with Mehmet in his tent, to save his captive son. By the time he's done and gets out of the tent, the vampires left absolutely no survivors... except one.
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Redshirt Army / int_2a04866b	comment	Happens in several Guild Wars missions. On a story level scale, in the consulate docks mission. The sunspears easily defeat the regular Kournan army, but then are killed in a cutscene by Varesh's demons, leaving the players to continue the story on their own.
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Redshirt Army / int_2b2f03da	comment	Metal Wolf Chaos has the Resistance forces, whose sole skill is "thorough knowledge of how to escape" helicopters that have been shot down. Note, please, that the only reason the helicopters are being shot down is because they are being deliberately piloted into missiles.
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Redshirt Army / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: If Sylar is under attack from Company Agents (excluding HRG and The Haitian), those agents are probably going to die.
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Redshirt Army / int_2ef7cb74	comment	They may not wear red, but the generic Combat Mages of Lyrical Nanoha have a tendency to get mowed down whenever they encounter the current villain's main forces. They're pretty good at keeping Mecha-Mooks at bay though, and they were able to contain the Wolkenritter until their Mysterious Protector appeared. In their defense, the main villains of the series are way out of their league. They're essentially cops, and you expect them to be able to take on an insane and insanely powerful mage (albeit with a bit of an Informed Ability), One-Man Army magic knights from an Artifact of Doom and a Mad Scientist and his super-powered cyborg minions and countless attack drones.
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Redshirt Army / int_2f1032e5	comment	Surprisingly enough, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has somewhat of a subversion with it's GM expy, the Shiden — while the suit fills most of the roles that the GM normally would have, although unlike the GM, the amount destroyed is rather small in comparisonnote admittedly, Tekkaden is much smaller than the Earth Federation. Playing this straight, however, are the Grazes and Reginlazes in the faction loyal to McGillis Fareed, which much like the ones used by the villains, go down rather easily.
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Redshirt Army / int_2fa6ae81	comment	Lampshaded in the cover of chapter 144 of Blade of the Immortal manga which features a dartboard with bullseye being taken up by a picture of the leader (100 points for hitting it) while the outermost ring is a picture of a faceless goon (10 points for hitting it). See it here.
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Redshirt Army / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto, despite the ANBU Black Ops supposedly being the strongest ninjas, with many of the best ninjas in the series being former members, they are usually killed off pretty quickly. Similarly, the Great Shinobi Alliance pretty much just exists to die in large numbers. After one day of fighting, a full half of the army was dead.
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Redshirt Army / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl: In Bizarrogirl, the Bizarro Justice League is blasted into oblivion by Godship very, very quickly.
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Redshirt Army / int_325475	comment	The S.T.A.R.S. operatives in Resident Evil: Apocalypse fit the bill. Their rooftop sniper, who had previously been headshotting zombies left right and center, instead chooses to shoot Nemesis in the chest repeatedly and is promptly blown up. The rest of them don't learn his lesson, and fire ineffectively at Nemesis for a short while before they're all mowed down, too.
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Redshirt Army / int_33dd1d8f	comment	The final stages of Half-Life are filled with corpses of Black Mesa Expeditionists. If only they knew you were capable of single-handedly wiping out all Mooks and defeating the Big Bad, they could've saved all those lives.
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Redshirt Army / int_341fddb5	comment	Super Atragon provides a rare, naval example: The massive US-led, UN fleet gets swept from the ocean in one shot.
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Redshirt Army / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: Subverted and defied in the original version. The Rad Arc builds up the threat level of Shamuhaza’s mutated monstrosities by having Kyril’s soldiery, who are previously shown as competent Men of Sherwood, struggle for the first time, taking more casualties than usual. However, these people go to great lengths to avoid being expendable, such as securing the flanks in battle, planning their next actions, freeing the other scattered forces, and replenishing their strength. As the battlefield moves to the Fortress City of Rad (i.e., the climax), Kyril opts to lead a band of twenty to sneak into the fortress city rather than putting all his eggs in one basket. In order to minimize casualties, he diverts the troops to a less problematic area while he and his apprentices press on towards the hornet’s nest. In the end, the hard-fought battle is won, but the narrative treats the losses sustained in Kyril’s company seriously by putting emphasis on the burials, the mourning, and the rebuilding process.
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Redshirt Army / int_36ee2abe	comment	In Paranoia, player characters take on the role of Trouble Shooters, whose job it is to track down trouble in Alpha Complex and shoot it. Given that the PCs are supposed to get in over their heads and die horribly, this means the player characters are the example. They even start as Red-class citizens, which comes with uniforms in the appropriate color... In the latest edition, players can also be IntSec Agents with a higher clearance or even Ultraviolet-clearance High Programmers.
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Redshirt Army / int_3967984f	comment	In Dead Space While the main character (an engineer in his forties, in average shape) is able to dispatch Necromorphs by the dozen, a military ship (~100 soldiers) is taken over by a single, bog-standard, non-replicating Necromorph. Fail. This can be somewhat justified by the fact that standard military weapons are less effective against necromorphs. However, even that necromorphs are more resilient to body shots than dismembering, they CAN be killed that way, it just needs a lot of firepower (about whole ammunition clip, depends on difficulty). Which fully armed warship with contingent of marines definitely HAD. So that's a very weak excuse. Clearly,, the government should send their marines to engineering school. Also in its sequel game Dead Space 2, when Isaac tries to enter the Government Section on the Sprawl and takes out the power grid in order to access to the Section, the entire villain's military force is immediately overrun and crushed by hordes of Necromorphs. Not that that wasn't a realistic loss on their side though. In the minute or so following the power grid failure you can see hundreds of Necromorphs if you point a flashlight out the window. That's more then Isaac ever had to contend with at any one time. Also note that the military force was equipped with firearms designed to kill humans, which are much less useful on necromorphs than repurposed mining equipment due to fact that necromorphs are vulnerable to dismembering, not to body and organ puncturing. Isaac can utilize even those weapons against necromorphs effectively, however considerable skill and expertise are needed for them to work, which the soldiers probably didn't have. Standard body shots are going to kill a necromorph eventually, but it takes much more time than dismembering. Against one or a few necromorphs this could stand, but as they were being overrun by such immense numbers, they couldn't stand a chance. In addition to the above point, the massive Necromorph swarm was spearheaded by the Ubermorph, which is invincible. The marines would have lost if that one had sauntered in alone.
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Redshirt Army / int_3b7e691d	comment	In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, of the Forty Thieves, the ones that get the most focus and screentime are Aladdin's father, Casem, Big Bad Saluk, and seven others. As such, the other 31 end up getting arrested and imprisoned by the film's midpoint.
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Redshirt Army / int_3c40bfef	comment	The Tower of Druaga has the Army of Uruk and some miscellaneous Climber parties perform a bit better than the rest of the examples of this page, but they're still not as good as the heroes. Season 2 introduces the Golden Knights, who are completely worthless against anyone with a modicum of fighting experience.
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Redshirt Army / int_3d22c14b	comment	In the first season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, anyone who ever pilots an AEU-MS are automatically members of the Redshirt Army. During the battle in Moralia, there were more than 200 Hellions and several brand-new Enacts. The survivors ran away when the Gundam Meisters had slain about 200 soldiers in minutes.
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Redshirt Army / int_3d24ebc	comment	Oblivion (2013): Aside from Sergeant Sykes and a female subordinate, the Scavenger soldiers are wiped out to a man during the second drone attack on their base, to the point of only Sykes and his subordinate are left to fight off the much bigger third wave. Good things the drones are a Keystone Army...
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Redshirt Army / int_3e6128	comment	Strike the Blood: The Island Guard. They haven't managed to kill or subdue a single monster on their own, but are almost always victims of a Curb-Stomp Battle. It's quite questionable why people want to become an Island Guard with the high casualty rates. Is the pay really that good?
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Redshirt Army / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Most of the characters from Attack on Titan are in one. Military training is essentially designed to weed out the weaker, less skilled, and less determined of the bunch by being physically and psychologically grueling, but even the hardy recruits who manage to graduate can easily die in battle against the Titans. The manga has tons of characters, but after the front line troops in the Survey Corps suffer several high casualty events, the only survivors of the final engagement are the main characters and one random guy. This seems to apply no matter which side of the conflict you're on, as is also shown with both Marleyan soldiers and the Mid-East Alliance army.
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Redshirt Army / int_3f231b84	comment	The ACU personnel from Jurassic World; they appear to be highly competent at what they do (reinforced when they respond to and quickly quell the Pteranodon rampage), but the Indominus rex is far beyond what they're prepared to handle and a whole team of them are slaughtered. Later, when Owen's raptors turn on him and adopt the Indominus rex as their alpha, the group of very well armed men they brought with them are slaughtered in minutes.
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Redshirt Army / int_4118c4f1	comment	Treasure Island: Trelawney's three manservants are all given single cabins, as if they were important passengers; yet they are all quickly slain and receive little characterization (although old Tom Redruth plays a slightly bigger role).
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Redshirt Army / int_428a472b	comment	The President's Secret Service detail in Air Force One is completely wiped out without so much as wounding a single terrorist. Then again, the terrorists did have a traitor on their side, massive surprise, and managed to secure the plane's arsenal of assault weapons and body armor before the Secret Service even realized they were under attack. No unarmored security detail outfitted with only sidearms can realistically stand up against heavily-armed and armored commandos in close-quarters. That said, the Secret Service actually did achieve their primary goal: they managed to hold off the badguys long enough to get the President to his escape capsule.
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Redshirt Army / int_438b63e4	comment	For the most part, allied AI improved somewhat each game. By Halo: Reach, they even started to comprehend blast radii... In general, the Marines and other human troops can be useful allies to have, but they die faster than an ice cream cone in a volcano if the player isn't careful. Unfortunately for you, the enemy's AI got correspondingly smarter as your allies' did.
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Redshirt Army / int_44fe781e	comment	And the Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Forces in Neon Genesis Evangelion (which are also prone to Five Rounds Rapid); in fact, all portrayals of the JSDF in anime. On the other hand, they do learn after a while and only use remote control missile barrages, and those are usually just distractions. ...or in kaiju movies (e.g. Godzilla) either, for that matter, where any reference to the necessary reality that there are people inside all the tanks and jets being uselessly thrown at the monsters (and by extension, the sanity of continuing to order such futile engagements) is the exception rather than the rule. Subverted in early episodes of Kotetsushin Jeeg, however. The JSDF display competent tactics in their battle against Himika's Phantom Gods, and although Jeeg spearheads their attacks, he can't do it alone. And in Bokurano the JSDF are essential in many of the fights between the Humongous Mecha. Gasaraki also subverts this with the JSDF having a unit of mechs with the protagonist piloting the same suit as his squad mates. Even though he is a little more skilled at it none of them are pushovers.
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Redshirt Army / int_457b671e	comment	24: CTU field teams will succeed in their mission only if either Jack Bauer, Curtis Manning, or both are present. If they appear to be completing their mission without a main character, that probably means they're about to be vaporized by a nuclear bomb. This rule also applies to any other armed detail mentioned, including the LAPD, Secret Service, and the freaking Delta Force, all of whom have completely bought the farm at one point or another (for some, repeatedly) while "setting up a perimeter," (a common 24 portent of doom), guarding something or somebody important, or intercepting a fugitive, respectively. The Season 7 finale actually subverts audience expectations with the airport security guards when they attempt to rescue Kim Bauer. While most of them are killed, they actually do manage to kill both of her captors, a pair of extremely well-trained agents. One of them actually manages to shoot Kim's male captor through a car windshield one-handed after already getting shot by said captor. Special mention goes to the often mocked CTU security guards who, on Days 4 and 5, actually wore red shirts.
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Redshirt Army / int_45854dfc	comment	The Mobile Infantry of Starship Troopers seemingly exist only to get killed in huge numbers. It's only due to gross mismanagement. It is worth noting that the trope is more than likely intentional as it is meant to show just how callous the fascist government is towards its troops, and may also be a deconstruction of Hollywood Tactics by showing what actually happens when you try to use them. In the book the film is based on a blurb on the back cover of the MI are most definitely not an example. The few battles where MI die in large numbers are generally due to being vastly outnumbered and facing an enemy that is essentially We Have Reserves incarnate.
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Redshirt Army / int_4771cdb6	comment	In Making History II, militia units have just as many soldiers as regular military divisions, but are extremely weak, and will get massacred by the thousands against well-trained and equipped armies.
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Redshirt Army / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII averts this trope by having wandering NPCs that can help you out in fighting monsters. Until you reach the Seeq hunters who randomly piss-off Garudas only to flee in terror until their inevitable deaths.
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Redshirt Army / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Ace Combat regularly has the PC flying alongside allied squadrons, but while they do get the occasional kill in they still are considerably less capable than you are. Averted in Ace Combat 6, where your allies will actually attack the enemies to great effect if you order them to.
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Redshirt Army / int_4b187e74	comment	Odysseus' men in The Odyssey may be history's first redshirt army: low survival rate (0%) and futile in every battle, Odysseus makes better progress once they're all dead.
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Redshirt Army / int_4b8c82ff	comment	Justified in The Winter War by Antti Tuuri. While the Russians resume their offensive with even bigger numbers, a fresh but unexperienced regiment takes over the Taipale front, as the narrator's unit moves to rest. The front line doesn't hold for a day.
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Redshirt Army / int_4b96a87d	comment	The direct-to-video release Superman: Doomsday had members of said army lampshading this before they fight Superman's evil clone.
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Redshirt Army / int_4c363bcc	comment	A few environments in Sentinels of the Multiverse include cards representing hero-friendly characters, such as Police Backup in Megalopolis and F.I.L.T.E.R. agents in The Block, who usually focus on attacking villains or hostile environment targets. These are usually very fragile allies who die when they catch any real villain attention.
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Redshirt Army / int_4cc06582	comment	An exception to the above is Hot Fuzz, in which the uniformed officer is the badass action heroes and the detectives are the incompetent boobs. Doubly averted when, in the big climactic fight, the detectives prove that they're just as competent as the next man if you load them up and give them riot gear.
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Redshirt Army / int_4ce969a9	comment	Marathon had the Born on Boards, (Bob, for short) that were the very definition of this trope, existing only to die horribly (by the player or by the Pfhor, it really doesn't matter) while shouting "They're everywhere!" The second game actually gives them pistols; however, they are still more or less useless save for a single prison break operation.
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Redshirt Army / int_4d1ba412	comment	In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: "Futures Trading", the author says in the Alt Text before the Final Battle: "I think a lot of these soldiers are going to die VERY quickly, because Anthony and I are getting VERY tired of drawing all of them." Also, they're humans fighting against an army of intelligent dinosaurs with better weapons, so it's no wonder they're a bit squishy. Even the Doctor as one of their leaders can think of no better Rousing Speech to give them than to say that they're probably going to die but at least they'll get to punch a dinosaur first.
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Redshirt Army / int_4dc4fbf5	comment	Jericho (2006): The fictional company Ravenwood (a loose allusion to Blackwater), who is supposed to be full of ex SEALs and other Special Ops guys, gets their ass handed to them by guys with no military experience, including a deaf mute girl with a shotgun.
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Redshirt Army / int_4dccc4bc	comment	The only time they're ever seen so much as winning a fight is when Odin is telling the story of his father's fight against the Dark Elves in the backstory of Thor: The Dark World, which may have been an embellished telling anyway.
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Redshirt Army / int_4e7cac32	comment	Supergirl (2015): In numerous episodes, Supergirl and other heroes will be accompanied into battle by various DEO agents. Chances are, they won't last long.
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Redshirt Army / int_4fe8fd1e	comment	Earth's military in War of the Monsters stand no chance for the monsters, who are seen casually destroying tanks and helicopters in cutscenes.
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Redshirt Army / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, the pawns serving both armies on the Skaian battlefield are examples of this.
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Redshirt Army / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009), of course. The Narada wipes out Earth's entire defense fleet in seconds and most of the Starfleet Academy graduating class with it. The only reason the Enterprise survived was that it got there late thanks to Sulu leaving the parking brake on, and Nero chooses to let them watch as he destroys Vulcan.
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Redshirt Army / int_510974b4	comment	Johnny Test has Sky Brigade, which is essentially a Red Shirt Fighter Squadron. When the Monster of the Week terrorizes Porkbelly, they either get shot down in what effort they make to save the day, or retreat as if they can't deal with the problem themselves without Johnny and Dukey's help.
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Redshirt Army / int_518f8da4	comment	In Eastern Condors, the squad of Boxed Crooks commanded by Sammo Hung were supposed to act as a distraction while an elite special ops unit went into to destroy the weapons stockpile. However, the plane carrying the special ops troops is shot down before it reaches the drop zone, leaving Sammo and his team to attempt the main mission.
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Redshirt Army / int_51d8e360	comment	Completely averted in Blue Dragon. While it at first looks like a classic scene where a Curbstomp Battle is about to occur between the Jibral Military and the Big Bad Nene, the Jibral Military proves itself extremely competent and actually routs Nene's ship and forces him to retreat without any noted casualties. They are so good, in fact, that you feel safe leaving your village in their hands.
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Redshirt Army / int_526d4c5c	comment	Played straight in Knights of the Old Republic during the attack on the Star Forge. The Jedi Council sends you an "elite" strike team of Jedi Knights... all of whom get (easily) killed by the various Mooks the place has to offer.
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Redshirt Army / int_529a7c75	comment	Resident Evil Abridged: From the moment S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team arrives outside the Spencer Mansion, Joseph is the first one to bite it, barely two minutes in. By the time the mission ends, Chris, Jill, Barry, and Brad are the only ones left from Alpha, and Rebecca is the only one left from Bravo Team.
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Redshirt Army / int_53b30902	comment	Valkyria Chronicles has the entire Gallian army. Whenever something needs to be blown up to prove what dire straits we're in, it's the army, and eventually the whole thing gets blown up at Ghirlandaio. No one cares because the army is a bunch of faceless, unsympathetic mooks even to the heroes, and the core group of Squad 7 is more worried that Alicia is capable of an explosion like that than the deaths of some thousands, possibly tens of thousands of people.
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Redshirt Army / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z: In the last Go Nagai manga arc, the Japanese army created the Mazinger army — a squad of mass-production, piloted Mazingers — to try and defeat Big Bad Dr. Hell once and for all. However, as Kouji was performing test flights with the Jet Scrander, Dr. Hell threw a massive attack involving several mobile fortresses and several dozens of Mechanical Beasts. Main character, Love Interest and Battle Couple Sayaka Yumi and the Mazinger army flew to meet the Hell's army. The entire army but one got annihilated, and you will never guess who was the single survivor. Sayaka. The Mazinger army reappeared in Mazinkaiser, and all of them were quickly destroyed and killed by the Mykene empire army. Only Tetsuya and Jun survived, and only Tetsuya put out a good, actual fight.
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Redshirt Army / int_56e365ef	comment	Batman: Arkham Asylum has the guards of the title Bedlam House, who end up overpowered by the Joker and his army of transferred prison inmates. Although for the player, the inmates are a villainous case, as the guards can't stop an army of murderous felons, but those same felons can't even stop what is ultimately, as Joker himself lampshades, just one man. ("One man dressed like a lunatic and armed to the teeth.")
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Redshirt Army / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Averted where the Azure City Army gives a damn good accounting of itself. Yes, they lose but they take a lot of Mooks with them and manage a fighting retreat in good order. Played for Laughs with Tarquin's forces from the Empire of Blood. He has an entire army surround the heroes for no other reason than to provide dramatic tension, though they're also trained in plot-critical reveals.
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Redshirt Army / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil S.T.A.R.S. from the original game. By the time Alpha Team reached the mansion, one of their own members is already dead (Frost), half of Bravo Team is dead too (Dooley, Dewey, Sullivan, and Speyer), two of the other members were mortally wounded (Aiken and Marini) before they were later killed off as well, and only Chambers (depending on how you play the game) manages to survive with Redfield and Valentine (and Barry Burton if playing as Jill; although Rebecca doesn't appear in that scenario, they all survive according to Word of God). The U.S.S. from Resident Evil 2 do not act in any manner expected from a special forces unit, and has a tendency of being killed to the very B.O.W.s they are trained specifically to handle. The only exception is Hunk, aka Mr. Death, a gas mask soldier who works for the Umbrella Special Forces unit always lives no matter what he's up against because in his words: "You can't kill Death". The U.B.C.S. in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis don't put up much of a fight, unless they were named. Somewhat justified, as Umbrella intended for them to fail so that the Supervisors could collect data on how their monsters fared against trained soldiers. The SWAT team from the start also counts. The BSAA troops in Resident Evil 5 actually do put up a decent fight when onscreen, but offscreen they tend to get surprised and slaughtered by boss monsters — except for those poor bastards in the marshlands, who are killed by the Ndipaya Tribe. In Resident Evil 6, The BSAA squad led by Chris Redfield pretty much counts during one part of the China level. They're hunting down a gigantic viper that can turn invisible at will. The squad, while marginally helpful up until now, begins helplessly dying off one by one. Some of them even need to be bailed out, but will still bite the dust at some point. In fact, they pretty much exist for the sole purpose of making the snake boss seem all that much more intimidating. Only one squad member survives the ordeal, only to be killed by Ada/Carla a little bit later.
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Redshirt Army / int_5846165c	comment	In the original Kid Icarus, you could free warrior angels in the boss fortresses, and they would appear to help you fight the boss. Unfortunately, they're so laughably ineffective that it's hardly worth the effort to collect them.
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Redshirt Army / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the Marines on the tanker get effortlessly slaughtered by Russian mercenaries, and that's just the one's posing as the crew of said tanker (as carrying assault rifles would make them suspicious). Then they just stand around doing nothing while Ocelot murders their commanding officer and sets off explosives to sink the ship. Later on, the Navy SEALs are doing pretty well until a super-speed vampire and a woman packing an energy shield and a BFG came along). To be even more fair, it did turn out that the Patriots sent them in so they would fail. In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Snake is held up by an apparent Mook and obediently drops his gun, then turns to face his attacker. He promptly notices that the safety on the mook's gun is still on and points this out, calling him a rookie. The rookie instantly corrects Snake, stating that he's a ten-year vet. A noticeably confused Snake immediately disarms the rookie and throws him to the ground, wondering how he managed to make it ten years. Oddly enough, despite his bumbling nature, the guy is not a Red Shirt, confusing Snake even more (he is actually recurring Joke Character Johnny Sasaki). Even more baffling, this goofball gets Snake's girl, Merryl whom many expected he'd be shipped with. He turns out to be something of a badass during the game's conclusion. Also in 4, gameplay occurs between a PMC and local army. Both sides are guilty of spawning and then running in front of snipers, gun emplacements, and die quickly. In Metal Gear: Ghost Babel for the Game Boy Color, Snake is meant to assisted by a platoon of Delta Force commandos. They (You've guessed it) are wiped out before you've got through the first stage. In the first mission of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, the two unnamed suit-clad Maverick cyborgs do quite well against Desperado mooks but get their arses handed to them quite easily by Sundowner. Jetstream Sam mops the floor with the rest. At least the Maverick guys get to die to bosses, though; the soldiers of the African country are slaughtered en masse by the mooks you go through by the dozen.
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Redshirt Army / int_59a835fb	comment	G.U.N. in Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog. On one hand, you got the basic robotic mooks, easily taken down by spin attacks. On the other, you have the actual humans who are competent enough to capture the world's (naturally) fastest hedgehog twice. In Shadow, though, it's not uncommon for the Ultimate Lifeform to have to go save a few along the way, and that is if you decide to help them.
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Redshirt Army / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: Thunderball: The American Coastguard frogmen sent against Emilio Largo and his SPECTRE frogmen team carrying nuclear bombs off the coast of Miami in the climax. An epic underwater battle with harpoon guns as primarily weapons ensues, with plenty of deaths on both sides. Then Bond arrives and turns the tide of the battle. The Spy Who Loved Me: The British, American and Soviet submarine crews Bond frees onboard the Liparus, who then raid the ship's armory and battle Karl Stromberg's army, with many gloriously dying against them including the British captain. Amusingly, Stromberg's mooks wear literal red shirts.
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Redshirt Army / int_5b075d7c	comment	A damn near literal example in Fable III: When you're fighting against Logan's army in the (first) Battle of Bowerstone, the guys on your side that aren't named are an army of guards wearing red shirts. They don't have names. They're just there to shoot the purple-coated guards and get killed.
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Redshirt Army / int_5c0e4258	comment	The Enforcers in SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron serve as nothing more than mere cannon fodder against the Villain Of The Week before the titular characters swoop in to save the day.
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Redshirt Army / int_5c208620	comment	Averted in Superman: The Animated Series in the episode "Apokolips...Now!" The well-equipped and well-trained Metropolis Police fend off the storm troops of an extraterrestrial invasion all by themselves with no help from Supes at all. They also had to act without any help from the military, the local base having been destroyed in an earlier pre-invasion attack.
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Redshirt Army / int_5cb7fc72	comment	To be honest, player character in System Shock 2 had the advantage of some illegal neural implants and guidance of insane AI considering him her avatar, though the latter eventually meant additional Big Bad to deal with.
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Redshirt Army / int_5db577ba	comment	The Gotham Police Department in The Dark Knight fits under this, if only due to their body count, even though they actually prove to be quite competent — especially at the end of the movie, when the SWAT teams storm the building. The only problem is that "competent" just doesn't cut it with someone as Crazy-Prepared as the Joker and badass as Batman. Almost subverted with the faceless police van driver, except it turns out to be Gordon. Their competence becomes clear once Batman made it clear who they are supposed to target. We are given shots of SWATs knocking out and suppressing Joker's henchmen with ease.
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Redshirt Army / int_5df4e1cc	comment	Done almost to the point of parody in Tiger Road. In the intro, some Mooks kidnap the villagers, then a single mook stays behind and slaughters the entire city guard.
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Redshirt Army / int_5e91c7a	comment	S.T.A.R.S. from the original game. By the time Alpha Team reached the mansion, one of their own members is already dead (Frost), half of Bravo Team is dead too (Dooley, Dewey, Sullivan, and Speyer), two of the other members were mortally wounded (Aiken and Marini) before they were later killed off as well, and only Chambers (depending on how you play the game) manages to survive with Redfield and Valentine (and Barry Burton if playing as Jill; although Rebecca doesn't appear in that scenario, they all survive according to Word of God).
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Redshirt Army / int_5e91c7b	comment	The U.S.S. from Resident Evil 2 do not act in any manner expected from a special forces unit, and has a tendency of being killed to the very B.O.W.s they are trained specifically to handle. The only exception is Hunk, aka Mr. Death, a gas mask soldier who works for the Umbrella Special Forces unit always lives no matter what he's up against because in his words: "You can't kill Death".
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Redshirt Army / int_5e91c7e	comment	The BSAA troops in Resident Evil 5 actually do put up a decent fight when onscreen, but offscreen they tend to get surprised and slaughtered by boss monsters — except for those poor bastards in the marshlands, who are killed by the Ndipaya Tribe.
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Redshirt Army / int_5e91c7f	comment	In Resident Evil 6, The BSAA squad led by Chris Redfield pretty much counts during one part of the China level. They're hunting down a gigantic viper that can turn invisible at will. The squad, while marginally helpful up until now, begins helplessly dying off one by one. Some of them even need to be bailed out, but will still bite the dust at some point. In fact, they pretty much exist for the sole purpose of making the snake boss seem all that much more intimidating. Only one squad member survives the ordeal, only to be killed by Ada/Carla a little bit later.
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Redshirt Army / int_61c6b600	comment	In Star Trek: First Contact we have the Starfleet task force fighting the Borg at Earth prior to the arrival of the Enterprise. They are doing far better then the fleet at Wolf 359 years prior, but they're still getting curb-stomped. The Enterprise security force continues the franchise tradition. However, they are shown to be quite competent, it's just that they're facing off against the Borg who can No-Sell pretty much everything the security officers can throw at them.
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Redshirt Army / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: In Avengers: The Initiative, the covert-ops Shadow Initiative is re-imagined as a redshirt army in the aftermath of Secret Invasion due to the Thunderbolts now serving that function. Consisting of choice members of the original team, third-rate villains, and Initiative washouts, the Shadow Initiative is sent into hot engagements to soften up the enemy for the big guns. Of the 14 members who went on their first mission, 8 came back alive. S.H.I.E.L.D. is a very good example. Until they got reformatted as HAMMER, which threw a pint and a half of mook into the mix, along with a dash of Villain with Good Publicity. They are supposed to be the best agents, operatives, commandos and so on in the world. However, agents would be massacred both individually and en masse by both super villains and normal Mooks. In the Ultimate Marvel universe you just wonder how they recruit. Some 30,000 agents and commandos are killed during the first strike of an Alien Invasion, and later get outmatched by superhumans on multiple occasions, usually while pulling guard duty on super-villains. And one time, their HQ was blown up, they were crippled, and then they got hammered by an army of super powered terrorists led by the Liberators. Most of Marvel earthbound superheroes in Jim Starlin's Thanos stories are treated as expendable and ineffectual secondary characters that get eliminated easily to show how reality warping antagonists (Thanos with the Cosmic Cube, Thanos with Infinity Gauntlet, the Magus, the Goddess, Akhenaten and a cosmically empowered Annihilus) are way above their tier.
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Redshirt Army / int_629cd094	comment	While NPCs have varying degrees of effectiveness in Dragon Age: Origins, the cutscene where the Warden encounters the Archdemon atop Fort Drakon plays this trope straight, as a company of soldiers is fighting the dragon just as you appear on the scene. The dragon quickly disposes of them all, leaving you to face it alone (barring any troops you may summon).
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Redshirt Army / int_631805af	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Snake is held up by an apparent Mook and obediently drops his gun, then turns to face his attacker. He promptly notices that the safety on the mook's gun is still on and points this out, calling him a rookie. The rookie instantly corrects Snake, stating that he's a ten-year vet. A noticeably confused Snake immediately disarms the rookie and throws him to the ground, wondering how he managed to make it ten years. Oddly enough, despite his bumbling nature, the guy is not a Red Shirt, confusing Snake even more (he is actually recurring Joke Character Johnny Sasaki). Even more baffling, this goofball gets Snake's girl, Merryl whom many expected he'd be shipped with. He turns out to be something of a badass during the game's conclusion. Also in 4, gameplay occurs between a PMC and local army. Both sides are guilty of spawning and then running in front of snipers, gun emplacements, and die quickly.
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Redshirt Army / int_63c1175b	comment	In Ultra Fast Pony, the allegedly elite squad of military pegasi are (initially) known as the Ineffectual Flight Team, and they're every bit as good as their name implies. Several episodes later, they reappear with the new title of Super Effective Flight Team. Unfortunately, "Changing their name did nothing to help their ability to fly!"
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Redshirt Army / int_63d89b7f	comment	Sidekicks: Whenever the Under Corps are lending their help in a major crisis, they turn into this.
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Redshirt Army / int_64f87bf3	comment	The deghans in the Farsala Trilogy are the ruling and fighting class of Farsala, but when the Hrum launch an invasion they're all dead within two chapters.
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Redshirt Army / int_66aa1a12	comment	Subverted in early episodes of Kotetsushin Jeeg, however. The JSDF display competent tactics in their battle against Himika's Phantom Gods, and although Jeeg spearheads their attacks, he can't do it alone.
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Redshirt Army / int_6735aaf4	comment	The first part of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE introduces the Genoace, which, upon inspection, seems to have been made with very little regard to combat effectiveness. Its weapons are rather poor excuses for the title (a beam spray gun and a heat stick,), it's lightly armored, and to cap it all off, the Federation was still using it despite the fact that they had failed to claim a single victory with the thing over the first fifteen years of the Vagan war.
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Redshirt Army / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Whenever a bunch of NPC allies appear in a Super Robot Wars game, they will die before the cut scene is over. The non-OG games usually use GMs or other weak Real Robots, but the Original Generation games give this duty to the Gespensts. Ironic thing is, Badass Normal and one-man-army Kai Kitamura pilots one of those Gespensts, and just will not be shot down easily. Hilariously subverted in Z's Special Disc scenario. In one route, YOU control the redshirts (later backed up by the Big O). They have grunt mechs and grunt pilots going against a fairly large group of Mooks. Even without the Big O, they can handle them with decent strategy.
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Redshirt Army / int_68f45eab	comment	Clodge ball teams in Idlewild fit: virtual armies of cyborgs, nightgaunts, hobgoblins, and gangsters that are expected to die in large numbers every fight.
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Redshirt Army / int_6900c94f	comment	In Kane & Lynch, your named teammates (Lynch, Thapa, Rific and Shelly) are surprisingly not a Red Shirt Army. You'll rely on them a lot, and they can take a lot of fire before they go down. However, in the civil war level 'Freedom Fighters', Lynch, Thapa, Rific and Shelly each get their OWN squad of four men to command, which all die after one shot.
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Redshirt Army / int_69085a0	comment	Macross: The regular UN forces in Macross 7 and later Macross Frontier (who in both cases were mostly flying outdated Humongous Mecha and had limited, if any, combat experience; this is even a plot point in Frontier and is used to explain the existence of Private Military Contractors).
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Redshirt Army / int_699f37a1	comment	Mostly played straight in the Silent Storm games, whenever you have NPC allies. However, this is usually because the enemy (governed by the same AI) has better weapons and more numbers. Several early missions in the first game involve you coming upon a battle between the Allies and the Axis. If you do nothing, your side loses, but they also take a fair number of the enemy troops with them. Additionally, one of the final missions in Silent Storm Sentinels has you defending you base from heavily-armed THO troops, some of whom are wearing Panzerkleins. Despite the base having trenches with machinegun emplacements and a number of friendly troops in advantageous positions, they ''will' get slaughtered, leaving it all up to your squad (who also should have Panzerkleins by that point). Especially since small arms do no damage to Panzerkleins, and the friendlies are likely to have few to no heavier arms like bazookas. Oh, and the guy in charge of the assault is wearing a Panzerklein armed with energy guns that slice through other Panzerkleins like butter.
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Redshirt Army / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe:
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Redshirt Army / int_6a7e6314	comment	In Thor: Ragnarok the Big Bad Hela not only slaughters most of the Asgardian army, she even kills the Warriors Three, some of Thor's closest friends, simply to show off how powerful she is while she still only has a tiny fraction of her full power. Then she resurrects all of them from the dead to serve as her new army, turning them into the bad guy version of this trope.
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Redshirt Army / int_6b6d989e	comment	Red Faction's AI wasn't the best, but your allies were especially terrible. Fellow miners would often die 20 seconds after you meet them, and couldn't at all keep up with the regular mook three-on-one even with the same weapon. And the Red Faction soldiers may as well be called the Red Shirt Faction due to their tendency of being terrible shots and being easily killed. The AI in "Red Faction: Guerrilla" isn't much better. Guerrillas last longer than they did in the first game, eventually get weapons on par with the EDF, and are smart enough to use cover, but are not nearly as efficient as the enemy, who will swarm you with loads of soldiers and gun your ass down before you can even blink.
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Redshirt Army / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Ever since Warner Brothers bought out the series, there's been a stronger focus on story for Mortal Kombat 9 and Mortal Kombat X. Since these games now feature several invasion storylines, Earthrealm has its own Special Forces army, and Kotal Kahn has his masked legions — both are basically ineffective against the demonic armies of Netherrealm, let alone any of the Kombatants. Even the weakened Quan Chi and his small cadre of revenants still kill them off easily. The assassin clans of the Lin Kuei and Shirai Ryu fare better — even their nameless generic members are extremely competent and equally dangerous in the storyline. The Shaolin Monks other then Lui Kang and Kung Lao are slaughtered by the dozen, during the Tarkatan's raid on their academy in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks.
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Redshirt Army / int_6c1234ed	comment	Having a poorly trained military Dwarf Fortress will result in them easily dying in droves.
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Redshirt Army / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 has the Brotherhood of Steel Initiates play the part, justified, not just because they're initiates, (Usually initiates are born into the Brotherhood and are very efficient by adulthood) but because they're recruited from (presumably) radiation weakened Wastelanders, who are untrained, and can hardly hold their own against the mutated creatures of the waste, much less the Pure strain, highly trained, descended from U.S. military Enclave soldiers Might be played straight with the more experienced Knights and Paladins depending on the difficulty level, and what kind of enemies they're fighting.
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Redshirt Army / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has the Commonwealth Minutemen: the Brotherhood from 3 return as the game's Badass Army. Minutemen are stated to be citizen-soldiers who take up weapons to defend their small settlements from threats, and it shows from their equipment: they can be packing crude pipe guns and wearing rags and baseball gear for protection, to wielding Laser Muskets and clad in metal body armour, and anything in between. You can call in a squad of Minutemen reinforcements with the flare gun you receive from Preston Garvey early on, but because of their kitbashed equipment and low level, they usually just present something for your foes to shoot at other than you, and mostly die in droves. Absolutely Averted if you lead them to victory against the Institute, as post-ending the Minutemen will start patrolling the roads and taking up positions in checkpoints as well as Diamond City, and they're much better trained and equipped: they'll mow down Gunners and Raiders with little trouble and can even give Deathclaws the fight of their lives.
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Redshirt Army / int_6c47db4e	comment	With a few exceptions, every single soldier and generic officer in Dynasty Warriors are only there for the heroes to take out en masse, and barely constitute a threat (unless you play on the hardest difficulty where even a simple spearman can deal a good chunk of damange to you if you decide to fool around).
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Redshirt Army / int_6c9193a1	comment	Averted in The Venture Bros. The OSI's grunts are stunningly effective at slaughtering villainous henchmen. In fact, they seem to enjoy it a little too much.
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Redshirt Army / int_6cd819eb	comment	The Cleavers in Skulduggery Pleasant count as this trope, as every major battle they are in ends with all of them dead. Partly lampshaded as it is said that their numbers have been devastated.
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Redshirt Army / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Ever since Warner Brothers bought out the series, there's been a stronger focus on story for Mortal Kombat 9 and Mortal Kombat X. Since these games now feature several invasion storylines, Earthrealm has its own Special Forces army, and Kotal Kahn has his masked legions — both are basically ineffective against the demonic armies of Netherrealm, let alone any of the Kombatants. Even the weakened Quan Chi and his small cadre of revenants still kill them off easily. The assassin clans of the Lin Kuei and Shirai Ryu fare better — even their nameless generic members are extremely competent and equally dangerous in the storyline.
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Redshirt Army / int_6df8f042	comment	Echoes: Operation Stranglehold has the UEN Combat Marines. Most of them have little to no training or combat experience, and are going up against a technologically and numerically superior force whose Mooks are still cybernetically enhanced soldiers programmed to fight.
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Redshirt Army / int_6e17a0d1	comment	Played excruciatingly straight in Die Hard.
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Redshirt Army / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk any army that doesn't have a main or plot important character in it is dead meat. There's also what happened to a lot of the Hawk's Raiders whenever the Hawks went up against an Apostle. Or what happened to nearly everyone in the entire Band when the Eclipse went down. It's easy to believe the band of the Hawk consists of only Guts, Casca, Griffith, and the Raiders. Their actual numbers are somewhere around 5,000 men, but all focus is put on the former mentioned members.
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Redshirt Army / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Any team that accompanies SG-1 through the Stargate. At the same time though... SG-11 seem to be hit the worst by this, having their entire team wiped out at least twice. The Free Jaffa exist so that the current threat can kill hundreds of thousands of them without actually hurting the real protagonists. Any Russian character appearing on the show had a 99% chance of being killed, unless they were female. Even recurring character Colonel Chekov eventually bites it after gaining command of the first Russian starship. Which is promptly destroyed. Similarly, the first Chinese starship also gets blasted (although it's not entirely destroyed), off-screen this time. However, before anyone starts saying how anything Russian- or Chinese-made is of poor quality, both ships were US-manufactured, then given to the Russians and the Chinese. The Air Force security forces that guard the Cheyenne Mountain complex are a perfect example. They're routinely killed off by various offworld enemies to demonstrate how threatening they are.
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Redshirt Army / int_719d0a47	comment	Partially subverted in the novel God's Demon. The character Sargatanas increases the ranks of his military with an army of souls, which are normally either mounted as artwork or turned into bricks by the demons (and only doing this because the soul Hani offered to form it after restoring the memories of his former life. The subversion comes in the form of this never having been done before (meaning the soul army has a partial element of surprise), as well as the souls using one of their common fates to get behind the enemy army and attack the flanks.
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Redshirt Army / int_72262aee	comment	Actually averted in Avatar: The Last Airbender, where Zuko voices out against sending in a team of right out of training cadets into battle to be used as a diversion in the war. However it was this action that prompted his father to scar his face and banish him in the first place. Played straight almost all the time, to show the heroes/villains as prodigies, or tougher than the norm. The Heroes commonly go off against greater odds (like the earth kingdom palace guard) and come out on top, the entire Earth Kingdom army failed to stop the Fire Nation Invasion, and an elite team all went down against Ty Lee. During the Seige of the North Pole, this trope was combined with mooks, during the day, the (sun-empowered) Fire-Nation began defeating Water Benders left and right, during the night, the (moon-empowered) water benders beat them with ease.
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Redshirt Army / int_7257afca	comment	Any group of players in Sword Art Online Abridged who are not recurring characters, are almost always completely helpless on their own. Not because they're too weak, mind you, but because they're too stupid.
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Redshirt Army / int_7357234c	comment	Beyond Good & Evil has the events of the game leading to a civil uprising only to have it be a trap that kills off everyone.
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Redshirt Army / int_747d9a6f	comment	In [PROTOTYPE] the Elite Mooks Blackwatch set up to have the marines be this, expecting them to be killed off by the thousands each week. Though in a Give the Dog a Bone twist, they were given the full credit for saving the people of New York from the outbreak. Blackwatch themselves are this. They're built up as an unstoppable Badass Army that's made of the best of the best and are humanity's best chance of fighting back, but in practice they're just useless red shirts and mad scientists who accidentally released two different zombie viruses on Manhattan within one week and have no real accomplishments throughout the game. Their incompetency goes unacknowledged until the sequel, where it's made clear that the organization is deeply corrupt and infiltrated by saboteurs.
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Redshirt Army / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Hyrulian guards in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Despite being heavily armed they are completely outclassed by the shadow beasts (the same goes for most of the NPCs) and most of them are actually shaking with fear during the encounter. The fact that Zant himself enter minutes later does not help their odds. In Hyrule Warriors, Link is joined by the knights of Hyrule for the first time. They're nowhere near as powerful as Link (or any other playable character), and they tend to die a lot, so he still has to do most of the work.
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Redshirt Army / int_755b343f	comment	Halo is one series to have a "plausible" explanation for this; the protagonists are usually unique Super Soldiers inherently superior to normal soldiers. Halo also does the "senseless loss of life" nod to the other characters, with NPCs like Cortana often expressing disappointment and regret if an entire unit of Marines is wiped out. That said, allied AI is stupid even by "normal soldier" standards. Their Artificial Stupidity makes them Too Dumb to Live. For the most part, allied AI improved somewhat each game. By Halo: Reach, they even started to comprehend blast radii... In general, the Marines and other human troops can be useful allies to have, but they die faster than an ice cream cone in a volcano if the player isn't careful. Unfortunately for you, the enemy's AI got correspondingly smarter as your allies' did. Some of the Pillar of Autumn's crew in Halo: Combat Evolved even wore red.
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Redshirt Army / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2: We get to see the quarian flotilla's marines on four separate occasions. In the first occasion, we see them get unceremoniously slaughtered by a heavy mech after disobeying their commander and rushing at it. In the second, we see them get overrun by a huge geth force and slaughtered (except Kal'Reegar, who's more like a Mauve Shirt). In the third occasion, a group of what's explicitly stated to be their "best marines", get massacred by minor enemies off-screen... This is actually a plot point, because the flotilla's politicians want to go to war with the geth. Kal'Reegar says that the only way for them to win, would be to fight from orbit, taking full advantage of quarian tech expertise, because a front-line conflict would be such a slaughter. On the fourth occasion (in an optional side mission), a squad crash lands on an uncharted planet, and all but one of them (who Shepared rescues) get slaughtered by varren (wolves IN SPACE).
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Redshirt Army / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, every army in the galaxy effectively becomes one of these…which is only to be expected, since they're fighting endless swarms of Reapers. To put this in perspective, the Big Bad of the first game was a single individual Reaper.
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Redshirt Army / int_76983481	comment	Gasaraki also subverts this with the JSDF having a unit of mechs with the protagonist piloting the same suit as his squad mates. Even though he is a little more skilled at it none of them are pushovers.
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Redshirt Army / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe has a Fantastic Caste System/Hive Caste System that the Gem Homeworld has for every type of Gem, such as the Ruby Soldiers, who are a literal example of this trope, often stated as common, disposable soldiers that can be shattered and replaced at their masters' whim.
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Redshirt Army / int_791f9a4a	comment	The AD Police of the Bubblegum Crisis universes. Slightly lampshaded in the non-canon Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal comic where an AD Police grunt stands in front of a wall memorial of fallen officers and retorts against a comment on how overarmed and overpowered the AD Police are.
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Redshirt Army / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Mass Effect 2: We get to see the quarian flotilla's marines on four separate occasions. In the first occasion, we see them get unceremoniously slaughtered by a heavy mech after disobeying their commander and rushing at it. In the second, we see them get overrun by a huge geth force and slaughtered (except Kal'Reegar, who's more like a Mauve Shirt). In the third occasion, a group of what's explicitly stated to be their "best marines", get massacred by minor enemies off-screen... This is actually a plot point, because the flotilla's politicians want to go to war with the geth. Kal'Reegar says that the only way for them to win, would be to fight from orbit, taking full advantage of quarian tech expertise, because a front-line conflict would be such a slaughter. On the fourth occasion (in an optional side mission), a squad crash lands on an uncharted planet, and all but one of them (who Shepared rescues) get slaughtered by varren (wolves IN SPACE). In the opening scene aboard the SSV Normandy, we see a new NPC called "Ensign". She dies. In Mass Effect 3, every army in the galaxy effectively becomes one of these…which is only to be expected, since they're fighting endless swarms of Reapers. To put this in perspective, the Big Bad of the first game was a single individual Reaper.
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Redshirt Army / int_7a7a1a86	comment	The Colonial Marines boast extensively of their badass prowess at the start of Aliens, but it only takes a few minutes for most of them to die. Except for the heroes.
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Redshirt Army / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: Hunters in general end up like this, being Private Military Contractors cut down in droves by Kain's Mini-Mecha, or in the Urban Warfare in Mihazono, for instance. For Katsuya, who leads Boisterous Weakling young Drankam hunters, the loss of his forces like this is Played for Drama with his Survivor Guilt. While for several other named hunters like Kurosawa, Tatsukawa, Mercia, and Xellos, they put The Men First and lead their hunters well, keeping casualties to a minimum since they aren't burdened by being a Glory Seeker like Katsuya.
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Redshirt Army / int_7bff7264	comment	Some of the Pillar of Autumn's crew in Halo: Combat Evolved even wore red.
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Redshirt Army / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Many soldiers, with the exceptions of the core G-Team members whom get enough screentime to show their characters, drop like flies against the Titans. One notable Army is Monarch's Gold Squadron, whom get thoroughly trounced and annihilated when they engage Rodan.
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Redshirt Army / int_7e0fd062	comment	Con Air: The National Guard sent to apprehend the con's at the boneyard, who come there in a rescue operation. Driving straight down through rows of junked airplanes that just screams "perfect spot for an ambush" they proceed to indeed get ambushed by forewarned cons, who kill most of them easily.
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Redshirt Army / int_7e1563ba	comment	Invoked and hilariously subverted in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; a US General Ripper intends to use all of the black men as a massive Human Shield to save them from the Canadians' gunfire. Chef, the leader of the group, is very against this plan and, when the time comes, orders his men to duck.
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Redshirt Army / int_7f87dafc	comment	Both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny were this way. Whether it was Strike Daggers and GINNs, or Windams and [ZAKU]s.
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Redshirt Army / int_7fd1fd91	comment	King Kong (2005) also has this with the crew of the SS Venture seemingly existing only to die by the hands of the many dangers of Skull Island. Although later in the film it is mentioned by Carl Denham that only 17 of the party apparently died, it seems to be a lot more.
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Redshirt Army / int_8132b616	comment	Uzumaki: When The Cavalry arrive in the form of a large fleet of rescue ships, it seems like the heroes of the story might be saved. Unfortunately, the would-be rescuers last all of a single page before being swept to the depths of the sea by a Mega Maelstrom. There's no hint that they're particularly incompetent, but in the face of a nightmarish Eldritch Abomination, there's never any real chance that they'll survive.
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Redshirt Army / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Despite it being the Trope Namer, quite a few of the characters that die in Star Trek: The Original Series are blue shirts or gold shirts. The first broadcast episode of the original series ("The Man Trap") has a body count of four minor crewmen, most of whom of course become monster chow shortly after beaming down to the planet. Ironically, the casualties are two blues, a gold and one unknown wearing a hazmat suit. In fact, no red shirt deaths occur until the seventh episode. The dubious honor goes to Crewman Mathews, who is pushed into a bottomless pit in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". In addition, this trope is completely averted in "A Taste of Armageddon": Kirk, Spock, and three redshirts beam down to Eminiar VII where, upon landing, they are sent to be killed. All of them survive. And those redshirts in the page image? They actually all survive that episode ("The Devil in the Dark") — the one redshirt casualty in that episode isn't even in that shot! Scotty is one of the few characters to wear a red shirt in the original series, and he's one of the few characters to survive into "Next Generation." He does get killed once, but he gets better. As Nichelle Nichols points out in one of her ME-TV promos, she wore red all the way through the series — "guess I just wore it better!" According to this set of statistics about Star Trek deaths, red shirt deaths actually only make up 58% of the deaths. However, since there are so many red shirts, their mortality rate is actually lower than the yellow shirts' (25 of 239 (about 10.5%) compared to 10 of 55 (about 18%)). In fact, even if you go by 43 being the number of red shirt deaths, the yellow shirts still have a slightly higher mortality rate. All in all, Star Trek being the Trope Namer makes this an Unbuilt Trope: Despite some showings of Hollywood Tactics, the Federation's land-based military forces are repeatedly shown to be highly competent, and rarely are deaths of any magnitude simply forgotten, or simply considered unimportant to the plot. As these scenes demonstrate, later shows had the nameless background characters averting Hollywood Tactics and demonstrating great combat skill and effectiveness, even when very poorly supplied and heavily understaffed.note The Starfleet marines in that last scene are sapient physical holograms programmed to be as lethal as the real thing.
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Redshirt Army / int_81eb50db	comment	Olympus Has Fallen: All of the secret service agents and Capitol Police guarding the White House get slaughtered by the bad guys (though they at least do take a lot of terrorists with them), and the rescue attempt by the military fails spectacularly with the deaths of most of soldiers, forcing Gerard Butler to save the day himself.
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Redshirt Army / int_82ff90e9	comment	The German soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front are very, very badly trained, and tend to die in swarms doing things that every experienced soldier knows not to do. The protagonists all survived their first few battles through sheer luck, and by seeing how other people died they've learned how to keep themselves alive — but they despair of explaining this to the New Meat, who continue to get themselves killed. (Given the accuracy of the rest of the novel, this may be Truth in Television, and it would certainly go a long way towards explaining WWI's casualty rates.) In World War II, it was noted that replacements (including officers) died at a much higher rate than experienced troops.
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Redshirt Army / int_83022f98	comment	In The Chronicles of Riddick the Necromongers defeat the Helion forces in a single night, which only takes a few minutes onscreen.
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Redshirt Army / int_84377fd8	comment	In G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the US Army and generic Joe troopers are like this, easily getting slaughtered by MARS's elite soldiers and vastly superior technology.
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Redshirt Army / int_846beec3	comment	Hibiki from Vandread runs into a Space Navy version in episode 11. They share their backstory with him just long enough to be wiped out by the bad guys and cause him to suffer some Survivor's Guilt. Another fleet shows up when Gondor Calls for Aid in the Finale, and they actually acquit themselves fairly well in the final battle.
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Redshirt Army / int_847a1ace	comment	In Attack of the Clones the Jedi rescue team that Mace Windu brings to Geonosis to save Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padme counts. They make a dramatic entrance at the Geonosian Arena, and are promptly surrounded by an army of battle droids with nearly all of the Jedi being killed within a few minutes.
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Redshirt Army / int_84809b33	comment	In L.A. Noire, you are frequently aided in shootouts by uniformed LAPD officers. While your plainclothes partners are invulnerable, the unis are not, and will often be gunned down in the first 30 seconds.
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Redshirt Army / int_84d455d4	comment	Ditto Paradigm City's Military Police forces in The Big O. The lone ones that don't give up by the finale and actually try to join the fight on Roger's side get vaporized in fairly short order. This actually becomes a plot point in Season 2. The commissioner is shown many times to be struggling with the fact that he and his men are almost completely useless against the giant robot-threats that keep popping up everywhere. Its also indicated that this inferiority complex was the reason he was so hostile toward Big O in Season 1.
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Redshirt Army / int_88f055ec	comment	Lampshaded by Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket: The above is somewhat undercut by Hartman's own words earlier in the film: "...you will become dead marines. And then you will be in a world of shit. Because marines are not allowed to die without permission!"
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Redshirt Army / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: The US military in Godzilla (2014). Not that they're incompetent though, just that they're facing off against something that can emit electromagnetic pulses which disables electronics, something that the military relies on heavily. And small arms fire, or even tank shells against heavily armoured creatures that even nukes can't really harm doesn't do much to slow them down. Fortunately they realize that Godzilla is more interested in hunting the MUTO's than attacking humans. The army is well aware of their red shirt status, but they're willing to bite the bullet to save as many lives as they can. This trope is actually something of an Invoked Trope /Discussed Trope, as when the Mutos and Godzilla are heading towards San Francisco Admiral Stenz says something along the lines of "I am throwing away hundreds of lives every minute just trying to steer one of those things away from populated areas, and there are two more of them." Downplayed with the drop troops in the climax, as they manage to take back the stolen nuke from the MUTO's nest and take it to a near by boat. Although they do get killed by the Female MUTO, they manage to distract her long enough for Ford Brody to move the boat. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Many soldiers, with the exceptions of the core G-Team members whom get enough screentime to show their characters, drop like flies against the Titans. One notable Army is Monarch's Gold Squadron, whom get thoroughly trounced and annihilated when they engage Rodan.
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Redshirt Army / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: The Federation forces in the original Mobile Suit Gundam had the GMs, mass-produced mecha whose sole purpose was to die in droves against Char's Gelgoog, Zeong, or Dozle's Big Zam (which weren't mass produced), as well as the M61 Main Battle Tank for when they needed something that Zion's own mooks could threaten. As the structural analogue of the Earth Federation military in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, the various military branches of the United Earth Sphere Alliance occupy a similar role against the five titular Gundams. It doesn't help that they've spent the last sixty years in much more mundane and complacent roles, and more conventional forces — particularly aircraft, mechanized infantry, tanks, and warships — are as least as numerous as their mobile suit forces. The first of multiple coups sees the Alliance military disbanded and the Special Mobile Suit Troops, OZ's formal cover, replace them (who enjoy more success against the Gundams, after a lot of work) Both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny were this way. Whether it was Strike Daggers and GINNs, or Windams and [ZAKU]s. The whole of the Earth Sphere Federation forces in Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer. In their defense, they were outnumbered 10,000-to-1. Nobody's going to do particularly well with those odds. The rebel group Katharon of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 looks like the AEUG to the A-Laws Titans, except that the AEUG had great mechas and pilots while the Katharon go into battle with mechas that where useless in the previous season that takes place four years ago. Their only purpose is to momentarily distract the A-Laws while Celestial Beings does all the actual fighting. You have to wonder why they even bother if all they do is die. Briefly subverted when A-Laws brings out anti-beam smoke. Even the mighty 00 is hampered by its reliance on beam weapons and it falls to Katharon and their obsolete solid guns to pull CB out of a tight spot. Fortunately for them A-Laws relied heavily on beam weapons too. In the first season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, anyone who ever pilots an AEU-MS are automatically members of the Redshirt Army. During the battle in Moralia, there were more than 200 Hellions and several brand-new Enacts. The survivors ran away when the Gundam Meisters had slain about 200 soldiers in minutes. The first part of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE introduces the Genoace, which, upon inspection, seems to have been made with very little regard to combat effectiveness. Its weapons are rather poor excuses for the title (a beam spray gun and a heat stick,), it's lightly armored, and to cap it all off, the Federation was still using it despite the fact that they had failed to claim a single victory with the thing over the first fifteen years of the Vagan war. Surprisingly enough, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has somewhat of a subversion with it's GM expy, the Shiden — while the suit fills most of the roles that the GM normally would have, although unlike the GM, the amount destroyed is rather small in comparisonnote admittedly, Tekkaden is much smaller than the Earth Federation. Playing this straight, however, are the Grazes and Reginlazes in the faction loyal to McGillis Fareed, which much like the ones used by the villains, go down rather easily.
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Redshirt Army / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	The opening scene of A New Hope is a Rebel squad getting wiped out by inexplicably competent Imperial stormtroopers. Later, in the Battle of Yavin, the Y-wing squadron is completely wiped out and only a handful of pilots from the X-wing squadron survive.
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Redshirt Army / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: Every major battle involves one group of redshirts attacking another group of redshirts with the main characters from both sides escaping unscathed: The mercenary attack on the Barracks in the fourth season, where three redshirts (and presumably a fourth who was unaccounted for) are shot by redshirt mercenaries in the jungle. They then proceed to open fire on Sawyer, but their Stormtrooper training prevents them from hitting him. Subverted Trope if one subscribes to the theory that Claire was killed when a redshirt mercenary with a rocket launcher blew up her house. Subverted again when Ben unleashes the smoke monster on the redshirt mercenaries, but only one dies, even after hearing several minutes of terrified screams. At the end of the fourth season, a group of redshirt Others attack the redshirt mercenaries and kill them all...with, you guessed it, the exception of their leader. Which is even more ironic when said leader kills one of his own redshirts accidentally by kicking a grenade over to their position. In the fifth season, the Others use fire arrows to attack the mass of redshirt survivors in 1954. Again, the main characters escape, but most, if not all, of the redshirt survivors are finally killed, ending four seasons of slaughter. The DHARMA Initiative seems to have its own redshirt army. In a subversion of this trope, however, a shootout involving Jack, Kate, and Daniel versus Radzinsky and two DHARMA mooks ends with no casualties, not even the redshirts.
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Redshirt Army / int_8f04d767	comment	In Battlefield: Bad Company and Bad Company 2; the player's squad are the members of the titular unit. Bad Company is sent in before the specially-trained assault troops; because those guys are "too expensive to waste". So technically, you are a member of one in those games. And you get the job done, better than any "special-ops douche-bags with pussy-ass heartbeat monitors on their guns". The regular United States Marines during the mission High Value Target could be counted as a redshirt army, given that no matter what, every single one of them dies during or immediately following the ambush.
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Redshirt Army / int_8fa1064	comment	Also averted in MediEvil, when Sir Dan summons a group of knights to help him battle the Big Bad's minions. The knights Sir Dan summons are actually quite competent fighters, and they need to be-if they die, it's game over.
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Redshirt Army / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "No Small Parts", the crew of the Solvang show up just long enough to establish that the Pakleds have become a serious threat (even if they're still pretty stupid) before the ship is destroyed with no survivors. Oh, and it's probably no coincidence that the Solvang herself is adorned with a red stripe.
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Redshirt Army / int_9044741c	comment	The soldiers accompanying the scientists in The Blob (1988) are useless. Though their poorer performance compared to the main characters when fighting the Blob might be attributed to the heavy NBC gear they are wearing.
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Redshirt Army / int_9068877a	comment	The titular Red and Blue armies of Red vs. Blue are an invoked version of this trope. They're made up of the most expendable soldiers in the army, told to fight a made up war, so Project Freelancer can have a realistic training environment for their elite agents.
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Redshirt Army / int_90c73dda	comment	The battle in the next-to-the-last Animorphs book involves one that survives. The US army launches a military force consisting, essentially, of hundreds of soldiers accompanied by a couple dozen Sixth Rangers. And this military force's goal is a suicide mission worthy of the best of them: to launch an attack, in plain view, against a spaceship that "could blow asteroids out of the sky." Ordinarily a Sixth Ranger ranks much higher on the Sorting Algorithm of Mortality. But in this case, Visser One orders the Sixth Rangers killed first, because he takes them more seriously in both a strategic and a personal sense. And the Animorphs manage to sabotage his ship too late to save the Sixth Rangers, but in time for the ordinary soldiers to survive. When they are the survivors, and some kids with superpowers are the casualties, it's a clear example of a plot that thwarts the usual laws of the Sorting Algorithm of Mortality. Toby's Hork-Bajir army get killed a lot, too, near the end of the series.
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Redshirt Army / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech the Clans treats its Solahma units as this, they are composed of older warriors who are assigned in menial tasks or send out as shock troopers so they can die fighting.
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Redshirt Army / int_9114c8e5	comment	In Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, all the assaulting forces of the Us in Innsmouth get killed, leaving to you the battle
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Redshirt Army / int_91476ad8	comment	The Clone Troopers in the Utapau and Jedi Temple levels in Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith are ridiculously weak and inaccurate, so will nearly always get killed only a few seconds in. Their only saving grace is that more constantly spawn to replace them, but never more then two or three at a time. What makes this particularly frustrating is when you have to fight against the clones after Order 66 comes down, not only are they suddenly a lot tougher, more accurate with their weapons and come at you with dozens of men at a time but you will also have to battle even tougher variants of the Clones, such as the Flame Troopers and the Clone Assassins. Makes you wonder why they didn't send those guys with you to fight Grevious in the first place.
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Redshirt Army / int_91d95565	comment	Dolphin Blue have the La Résistance opposing The Empire, and doing a terrible job at it. Right off the first level, the resistance soldiers are shown getting slaughtered, with a handful of them surrendering until the player suddenly drops in and starts kicking ass. The resistance returns in the final stage, but they're useless on their own with the player entering new areas and finding dead or injured resistance members before them.
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Redshirt Army / int_93f27f86	comment	The Army Men franchise has a particular habit of doing this. In the original top down game, which were more Strategy than shooter, all of your units save for your starting squad generally had the same stats as the enemy, so friendly paratroopers died of quickly. In the Sarge's Heroes games, allied units could be found on the map, particularly in the first mission of the first game, but they usually got killed. If you saved them, they just ran off to stand by some boxes somewhere.
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Redshirt Army / int_9611388e	comment	The Prophecy of the Stones. Whenever the good guys fight in a battle, expect the vast majority of unnamed characters to die. At the beginning of the final battle, the Army of Light and the Army of Darkness (guess which sides they belong to) are evenly matched in the thousands, but by the end of the battle the Army of Light is reduced to hundreds and hasn't even made a dent in the Army of Darkness. Either the Army of Darkness is scarily competent, or the good guys suck.
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Redshirt Army / int_963d9065	comment	S.H.I.E.L.D. is a very good example. Until they got reformatted as HAMMER, which threw a pint and a half of mook into the mix, along with a dash of Villain with Good Publicity. They are supposed to be the best agents, operatives, commandos and so on in the world. However, agents would be massacred both individually and en masse by both super villains and normal Mooks. In the Ultimate Marvel universe you just wonder how they recruit. Some 30,000 agents and commandos are killed during the first strike of an Alien Invasion, and later get outmatched by superhumans on multiple occasions, usually while pulling guard duty on super-villains. And one time, their HQ was blown up, they were crippled, and then they got hammered by an army of super powered terrorists led by the Liberators.
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Redshirt Army / int_98f107f3	comment	And in Bokurano the JSDF are essential in many of the fights between the Humongous Mecha.
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Redshirt Army / int_99041728	comment	In Transformers: War for Cybertron and its sequel Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, both the Autobot and Decepticon factions have endless waves of generic unnamed members whose sole purpose seems to be to get slaughtered by the dozens by the named (usually playable) characters on the other faction. There are several times in both games where you are accompanied by whole squads of redshirts from the faction you're currently playing who almost invariably fail to survive until the end of that level. When playing as a 'con you get to kill droves of Protectobots, and when playing as a 'bot you get to see droves of them already dead while passing through most levels. Most of them are painted in red. And if that seems like a coincidence, the strongest basic soldiers come in blue and gold.
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Redshirt Army / int_9910cc85	comment	Mulan: The Imperial army, led by Shang's father, stakes out at a village in a mountain pass they expect Shan Yu and the Huns to take to the Imperial City. Unfortunately, thanks a doll from the village providing the Huns with GPS Evidence, the entire army ends up getting Killed Offscreen, with the recruit army discovering the aftermath. It helps to demonstrate how vicious the Huns are. On the subject of the Huns, they aren't immune to this either, as thanks to a Hair-Trigger Avalanche set off by Mulan, the majority of them are wiped out, the onlys left being Shan Yu, his hawk, and his five top generals.
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Redshirt Army / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman: Even though Themyscira is composed of nothing but immortal women with hundreds of years of combat training, don't expect them to last long against any invader unless Wonder Woman herself is leading the charge. During the '90s and '00s, it was almost a tradition for the Crisis Crossover du jour to kill hundreds if not thousands of Amazons off-screen.
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Redshirt Army / int_9b759cef	comment	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: In Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Captain Cannon's company is made up of young men who wear red uniforms and flee from their first several battles. Save for their surgeon and possibly a few men who were wounded earlier, they are wiped out in the last act (albeit during a Hold the Line Suicide Mission, and in a surprisingly fierce Do Not Go Gentle manner). Averted with Lord Paget's regiment in the climax of the same book, who are a Badass Army of cavalrymen, musketeers, and ninjas and also act as The Cavalry.
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Redshirt Army / int_9c6a617e	comment	In Metal Gear: Ghost Babel for the Game Boy Color, Snake is meant to assisted by a platoon of Delta Force commandos. They (You've guessed it) are wiped out before you've got through the first stage.
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Redshirt Army / int_9d0c8e9c	comment	Gloryhammer The dwarves that fight Zargothrax in "Apocalypse 1992": In the music video for "Hootsforce", the good guys' space submarines keep being blown up by Zargothrax's ships until Angus McFife XIII personally knocks him out with the Hammer of Glory.
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Redshirt Army / int_9d34190a	comment	For much of The Elder Scrolls series and its backstory, the Imperial Legion has been the best professional army in the history of Tamriel, and has aided in taking over most or all of Tamriel three times. However, following the Oblivion Crisis, the secession or loss of over half the Empire's provinces, and the Great War with the Aldmeri Dominion, the Legion is not in much better shape than the Empire it serves. Still, it managed to force a stalemate with the Dominion, though Lost The Peace by agreeing to the unfavorable White-Gold Concordat, which led directly to the Skyrim Civil War. Due to the losses suffered during the Great War and the need for the protection of the remaining Legions in Cyrodiil, the Legionaries in Skyrim are stated to be local recruits who are nowhere near the level of the highly disciplined Legionaries of the past, Justifying the trope. Whether or not they win the war is up to the actions of the Player Character during the Civil War questline.
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Redshirt Army / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The Marines, despite antagonizing the protagonists, who are pirates, are full of people who legitimately want to make the world a safer place, Knight Templar Well-Intentioned Extremist members aside. However, they are mostly victims of The Worf Effect, and by the time of the Paramount War arc, anyone who isn't a member of the admiralty can get swept aside with ease.
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Redshirt Army / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	Played with in Gaunt's Ghosts. Occasionally the Tanith First-and-Only is a Redshirt Army, and occasionally they're hyper-competent badasses. It all seems to depend on how prepared they are, and how many of them there are. Some books also contrast their performance, usually favourably, with other units', such as the local armies on Aexe Cardinal in Straight Silver and AT 137 in The Armour of Contempt. The Tanith First-and-Only specialize as scouts and skirmish troops and are excellent in missions of that nature. When used as frontline troops where stealth and mobility is not that useful, they take casualties similar to other units.
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Redshirt Army / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	...or in kaiju movies (e.g. Godzilla) either, for that matter, where any reference to the necessary reality that there are people inside all the tanks and jets being uselessly thrown at the monsters (and by extension, the sanity of continuing to order such futile engagements) is the exception rather than the rule.
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Redshirt Army / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Superman: The Atomic Knights are a step up from the usual. While they do have top-notch training, good teamwork and state of the art equipment, they're still essentially Red Shirts. In the beginning of The Coming of Atlas, several members of the Science Police are futilely trying to stop a giant monster from rampaging through Metropolis. Then, villain Atlas shows up, kills the monster single-handedly, and proceeds to utterly decimate the whole M.S.P. squad. Supergirl: In Bizarrogirl, the Bizarro Justice League is blasted into oblivion by Godship very, very quickly. Green Lantern: Same thing with the Green Lantern Corps, with an added element of Conservation of Ninjutsu. An individual Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Kilowog, Arisia etc.) is a powerful hero, but masses of nameless background Green Lanterns die in droves. Wonder Woman: Even though Themyscira is composed of nothing but immortal women with hundreds of years of combat training, don't expect them to last long against any invader unless Wonder Woman herself is leading the charge. During the '90s and '00s, it was almost a tradition for the Crisis Crossover du jour to kill hundreds if not thousands of Amazons off-screen.
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Redshirt Army / int_a0ae470	comment	In Toy Story 3, the Sarge (played by R. Lee Ermey) and two other soldiers are the only survivors of the Green Army Men after the Time Skip from 2. "When the trash bags come out, we army men are the first to go." Accepting their mission is complete because Andy has grown up, they parachute out of the window in search of greener pastures. They eventually land at Sunnyside Daycare, after Ken & Barbie have turned it around.
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Redshirt Army / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama. Suicidal redshirt charges are the only page in Zapp Brannigan's playbook. Brannigan even brags about how he defeated an army of killbots by sending wave after wave of redshirts at them until the killbots exceeded their kill limit. In "Into the Wild Green Yonder"
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Redshirt Army / int_a2ee8c1e	comment	In the beginning of The Coming of Atlas, several members of the Science Police are futilely trying to stop a giant monster from rampaging through Metropolis. Then, villain Atlas shows up, kills the monster single-handedly, and proceeds to utterly decimate the whole M.S.P. squad.
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Redshirt Army / int_a413d7dd	comment	Taken to absurd levels in The Adventures of Tintin (2011); Sir Francis's crew has British soldiers wearing red. When the pirates board the ship, they are effortlessly wiped out by the pirates leaving Sir Francis to fend off the pirates on his own. Despite Sir Francis's efforts, the battle is lost and the surviving crew members are forced to leap off the ship later anyways.
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Redshirt Army / int_a4274674	comment	The US military in Man of Steel. They're actually competant, just massively, massively outmatched by their Kryptonian opponents, a bunch of invunerable soldiers with Super-Strength, Super-Speed and highly advanced weaponry and technology.
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Redshirt Army / int_a563b2ec	comment	Occurs in Doomsday, when a group of highly-trained, heavily-armed British special forces in armored personnel carriers get killed in a matter of minutes by some punks with ice picks and a crossbow.
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Redshirt Army / int_a599305d	comment	The Resistance members in the Mega Man Zero games were woefully under-trained and outgunned in every engagement they were in. One wonders how the Resistance was able to hang for so long before Zero came in to save their hides from giant mechs and enemy generals. To their credit from about half-way through the second game the Resistance manages to AVOID this trope, since Zero pledges to keep any more redshirts from getting killed, and he keeps that promise! In the third game, the rebuilt Copy X states that he was holding back because resistance leader Ciel is human, and he is (mostly) bound by the first law of robotics. That said, there's probably no excusing the fact that it wasn't just the Resistance fielding an army of red shirts, but also the Neo Arcadian forces. The typical foot soldier of the army, the Pantheon model, has very little purpose in life other than to explode into tiny pieces.
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Redshirt Army / int_a5e6a399	comment	Subverted in the first mission of Command & Conquer: Renegade. A GDI convoy is ambushed, but with the help of a commando (the player), all the ambushers are killed.
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Redshirt Army / int_a6543322	comment	While statistically fought against more then with in the main games, fairies in the Touhou Project series generally fill this role in the fan spin-offs revolving around strategy as relatively weak allies and foes to be shot down by more powerful (and intelligent) characters. Luckily, non-lethal spellcard rules means that fairies rarely actually die in spite of their criminal incompetence, and even when that isn't the case, fairies rarely ever stay dead with the ability to regenerate almost instantly.
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Redshirt Army / int_a7bb2a13	comment	Mega Man ZX has another group of these, the Guardians. They do much better than the resistance, but when Serpent sends his forces to take out the Guardian airship, it's up to Vent/Aile to bail them out...Then again, all they did was destroy an air-ship and fight off the Psycho for Hire. The Guardians did most of the work defending their own ship, it seems, even aiming to score clean hits to minimize the debris that falls to the cityscape below.
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Redshirt Army / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: A side effect of the Plot Armor the main characters have, only the Numenorian warriors and nameless villagers are killed by the pyroclastic flow of Orodruin.
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Redshirt Army / int_a825da3e	comment	"Weenie" decks in Magic: The Gathering follow this principle. A Weenie is a cheap (usually one-drop), efficient Creature. A Weenie deck will use a horde of these Creatures to swamp the enemy, usually sustaining heavy casualties in the process. This is also true in the case of tokens; cheap, disposable creatures usually generated en masse from other cards. A particularly successful weenie or token attack with few casualties averts this trope, and becomes a Zerg Rush instead.
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Redshirt Army / int_a94fc74e	comment	In many crime-related action movies or shows (the Lethal Weapon movies, for example), any uniformed police officers and / or detectives who are not the protagonists are usually little more than easily-disposable cannon fodder. Sometimes it is because they face an opponent against whom they genuinely have no chance against (such as a Terminator); other times, particularly when opposed to a small criminal syndicate, it is because they display incompetence which is nothing short of alarming for members of a modern metropolitan police department. An exception to the above is Hot Fuzz, in which the uniformed officer is the badass action heroes and the detectives are the incompetent boobs. Doubly averted when, in the big climactic fight, the detectives prove that they're just as competent as the next man if you load them up and give them riot gear. Zig-zagged in the John Woo movie Hard Boiled. In the tea house shootout, anyone other than Tequila and his partner is just another red shirt. The undercover cops and the SWAT team in the big hospital shootout later on, however, do hold their own quite satisfactorily despite losing a good portion of their number and get the hostages out while Tequila and Alan kick serious ass. Played excruciatingly straight in Die Hard.
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Redshirt Army / int_ae259c31	comment	The Spy Who Loved Me: The British, American and Soviet submarine crews Bond frees onboard the Liparus, who then raid the ship's armory and battle Karl Stromberg's army, with many gloriously dying against them including the British captain. Amusingly, Stromberg's mooks wear literal red shirts.
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Redshirt Army / int_afeeacf6	comment	And it happens yet again in The Force Awakens, when many of the Resistance fighters are easily wiped out while attacking Starkiller Base.
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Redshirt Army / int_b0e228be	comment	Generator Rex Zig-Zags this. On one occasion they failed to take on a gang, armed with Crossbows and the element of surprise note more advance weapons were used to take out the air support, but weren't used after that. When stuck in the Bug Jar, Calan and 4 others (two masked, two unmasked) stand by the heroes and fight off the enemies admirably. During the attack on the base, they're taken down, but by the end of the episode, they regroup to fight off the enemy Mooks. Most of the time, they just shoot ineffectively at the monster and the heroes save the day.
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Redshirt Army / int_b185ec6b	comment	In Jack the Giant Slayer the majority of the guardians who climb up the beanstalk to rescue Isabelle don't even make it up the beanstalk before facing their demise. All the others are killed by the giants quickly. Doesn't help that most of the Guardians are wearing red shirts.
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Redshirt Army / int_b19c233a	comment	The HBO film When Trumpets Fade is built around this trope. Explained by Sgt. Manning:
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Redshirt Army / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: In Season 5, the Unsullied, stated repeatedly of being the best army in the world, are turning into this. They have seemingly forgotten their basic training of forming up shoulder to shoulder into a shield wall and seem to be no more skilled man-to-man than a group of rebel Meereenese. Stannis Baratheon's army becomes this when they face the much larger and less weary Bolton cavalry. The Night's Watch is composed mostly of thieves and murderers who join to avoid their punishments. The rest of the kingdom forgets about them as they freeze and fight. Robb's diversionary army is seen as completely expendable in-universe. Whilst they start off winning a few series of victories against the Tullys when led by Jaime, the Lannister army starts to lose battles and suffers staggering losses in each engagement once Robb Stark enters the fray. For example, that huge force Tywin musters to pillage the Riverlands? Precisely half of it is destroyed when Robb defeats and captures Jaime. The replacement army at Oxcross? Robb destroys that one, too. By the end of Season 3, Tywin has given up trying to beat Robb conventionally, and does so by playing to his own strengths: politics and intrigue.
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Redshirt Army / int_b3689578	comment	In Bats, the U.S. military detachment in charge of dealing with the bat problem goes to the spot where the bats nest, at night, and is completely annihilated.
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Redshirt Army / int_b369565e	comment	Although the army in D-War: Dragon Wars did a good job of killing Buraki's forces, the problem was there were too many of them to deal with.
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Redshirt Army / int_b370ddd1	comment	Whenever the Asgardian army in the Thor movies fights anyone they fall in droves unless they're one of the supporting or main characters: The only time they're ever seen so much as winning a fight is when Odin is telling the story of his father's fight against the Dark Elves in the backstory of Thor: The Dark World, which may have been an embellished telling anyway. In Thor: Ragnarok the Big Bad Hela not only slaughters most of the Asgardian army, she even kills the Warriors Three, some of Thor's closest friends, simply to show off how powerful she is while she still only has a tiny fraction of her full power. Then she resurrects all of them from the dead to serve as her new army, turning them into the bad guy version of this trope. Thor: Love and Thunder lampshades this after Gorr attacks New Asgard. When one of the townsfolk exclaims half their warriors are dead, another reponds half their warriors are always dead.
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Redshirt Army / int_b373a206	comment	Green Lantern: Same thing with the Green Lantern Corps, with an added element of Conservation of Ninjutsu. An individual Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Kilowog, Arisia etc.) is a powerful hero, but masses of nameless background Green Lanterns die in droves.
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Redshirt Army / int_b3ebd61e	comment	Not averted in X-Wing, Rogue Squadron and other similar flight titles, where allied pilots are about as useless as a sack of hair.
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Redshirt Army / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: Whenever the military of Fiore tries to dispose of villains, they're often utterly curb stomped, or forced to retreat.
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Redshirt Army / int_bacb3abc	comment	Very plausible example from The Rock. Commander Anderson's SEAL team enters Alcatraz through the shower room, and as they are about to move up, they encounter what appears to be a laser tripwire. In reality, said tripwire is a custom-designed motion detector built to look like a tripwire; disarming it like it is a tripwire results in it signaling an intrusion. As the SEAL team disarms it, Hummel's Marines realize what's happening and surround the SEALs as they enter the showers from an elevated position, boxing them in from good cover. In the subsequent shoot-out, the SEAL team is slaughtered to the last man. note Interestingly, there was actually a real case in Operation Just Cause that similarly(though less drastically) went badly for the SEALs when they ended up in a firefight after their covert approach failed. It was found that they had focused on insertion rather than infantry tactics (unlike the Marines), though this was largely fixed by the time the movie took place.
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Redshirt Army / int_bbbccf7	comment	Averted in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo. The Japanese Self Defense Force is actually so competent, it shocks the heroes. There's a reason for this….
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Redshirt Army / int_bc3e398b	comment	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Notably used in the last episode of Season 1, in which Agent James Ellison takes a fully tooled-out FBI Hostage Rescue Team in to storm a terminator's motel room. The HRT is some 20 or so members strong, fully tooled for bear with bulletproof vests, assault rifles, and helmets, and is merrily dispatched in the space of about two minutes to the beautiful crooning of Johnny Cash.
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Redshirt Army / int_bc849a80	comment	A good example is the National Guard from Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem who don't even last five minutes before being wiped out, although that left the heroes with weapons and equipment, most notable a Stryker APC.
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Redshirt Army / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Planetary Defense Forces in Warhammer 40,000 are almost uniformly treated as speed bumps by any invader, or for Chaos, a ready supply of expendable minions, generally getting wiped out in the first ten minutes or so of any invasion. The Imperial Guard also fulfills this function when the Space Marines are the protagonists. It's been joked that the PDF is the Redshirt Army for the Redshirt Army. Hardly surprising, considering manpower is the only resource the Imperium has in excess, with their commanding officers even more inept than the Guard's, and often inbred Upper Class Twits to boot. Averted in that some PDFs are as good as their Imperial Guard counterparts. Also justified, as the PDFs best soldiers and units are usually taken to fill up the ranks of the Imperial Guard. It's basically light infantry vs. the legions of hell. Also the only reason that they are considered one is because everything else is genetically modified, sports ridiculous technology, comes in numbers much larger than theirs or backed by a god of some sort. So the fact that they go up against them anyway makes them a Badass Army if anything. The Imperial Guard have been known to subvert this, though, for one very good reason. Sure, the soldiers usually fit the Red Shirt line. But they also have tanks. Lots and lots of tanks. And more so, lots of lots upon lots of lots of lots of men. They will drown their enemies in their blood, and bury them under their corpses. The only resource the Imperium of Man is never short is manpower. Your soldiers being worth 20 of theirs isn't much good if they can field 50 times the amount of your soldiers. No-where is this made more evident than in the Siege Of Vraks books. The Imperium needs to re-take a world but it's an absolute fortress that would take a vast (even by Imperial standards) deployment of forces to just go take it back today. The alternative option? A 12 year siege that will "only" kill 9 million guardsmen. And then that doesn't even go to plan anyway. The average Guardsman is tithed from the top 10% of his world's PDF. He is equipped with armour that'll hold well against most modern small-arms, and armed with a beam rifle that hits like a 7.62mm round (sans the recoil and casing drop) and can be recharged by virtually any power source (including body heat and open flames, though the former option is slow and the latter drastically reduces shelf-life). They are often trained on Deathworlds — planets that, while technically habitable, are so inimical to human life that Siberian winters, the middle of the Amazon, and high noon in the Sahara Desert all look downright hospitable in comparison. If lucky, they face things that want to kill them or possibly eat them. If unlucky, they face the prospect of being enslaved or being tortured to death over decades or even centuries. At worst, the long, drawn-out death is only an overture to an eternity in a Hell that makes Dante's Inferno seem like a Hotel & Spa vacation. And still they hold the line, not because they're particularly brave (by the standards of the setting) but because it's the only option they have. If they fail they die, if they flee they die because now not only does the enemy still want them dead but so do their former comrades, and if they do hold the line then there's almost certainly another chance to die horribly. Crapsack World indeed. Want a good way to be scared of this universe? Consider that the standard-issue lasgun has more firepower than most conventional modern ballistic weapons, and standard-issue flak armour can stop a lasgun shot cold while bulletproof vests today can only reliably stop shotgun shells and pistol bullets. Imperial Guardsmen are often better equipped, trained, and supported than any current-day elite soldiers, yet they die in droves. If the real Earth was invaded by an Aeldari warhost, an Ork WAAAGH! or a Tyranid Hive Fleet, we certainly wouldn't last very long at all. In light of the above, what prevents Guardsmen from deserting first chance they get? The local Kommissar , who will be happy to reinforce morale, stiffen resolve, remove dissenters and punish heresy in a single BLAM. In Dawn of War, you don't even need to wait for a squad to be demoralized to use the commissar's Execute ability, as using it straight off the bat prevents morale damage and increases attack speed in surrounding squads. That's right: in 40K, the redshirts sometimes die before even seeing battle. Ork armies also count. They are more numerous than every other race in the galaxy (except the Tyranids, if we include the large force of Tyranids who haven't entered the galaxy yet). They die in droves, but many more are ready to take their place. Speaking of Tyranids, the average gaunt warrior is born with no digestive system; they're expected to die in combat looooong before starving to death is even a remote possibility, though they're closer to the role of Mooks. If the men and women of the Imperial Guard are pathetic, than Chaos cultists are even more. Most cultists are armed with autoguns (basically just classic gunpowder firearms) and improvised melee weapons and armour with the odd flamer or heavy stubber. Most of them don't even have combat training, they just rely on sheer zeal. As far as the Chaos Astartes are concerned, cultists are only good for using up the enemies' ammunition or as unwitting fuel for their profane rituals (if the legion is the Iron Warriors, they can also dig trenches and be used as field rations). However the Alpha Legion actually bother training their cultists, and as a result they can be scarily competent as saboteurs and field agents.
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Redshirt Army / int_c0eae17	comment	The Total War series is bad about this. Rome: Total War — a game generally considered accurate enough to have been used in several actual documentaries — is a particularly major offender, drawing complaints from historians about the ludicrous amount of mutual bloodshed in the typical battle, and the fact that nobody really bats an eye if you go out and lose 75% of your army in a "close victory."
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Redshirt Army / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: UNIT has a tendency to fall into this category, their role generally being to hold off the enemy Mooks in a losing battle until the Doctor can figure out how to beat them all in one stroke. Although in some appearances, they buck that trend. In their introductory story "The Invasion", they defeat the Cybermen in a conventional battle and their coordination with the RAF and the Russians sees them win the day with the Doctor taking a backseat to most of it. In "The Ambassadors of Death" and "The Mind of Evil", they fight normal humans who aren't as well equipped as them. In "The Poison Sky", they start off looking like this when the Sontaran army uses a field that makes copper-jacketed bullets expand inside guns to jam them. A fair number of UNIT troops are thus slaughtered when their guns fail. UNIT, upon being told this, gets steel-jacketed bullets and teaches those arrogant bastards that the human race is not to be messed with. The Sontarans' claims of "sport" aside, clearly they aren't that used to their prey fighting back. In "Planet of the Dead", they use surface-to-air missiles against the Horde of Alien Locusts, and upon seeing their effectiveness, Captain Erisa Magambo exclaims "I don't believe it! Guns that work!" As of 2005, if your security is wearing black uniforms and have guns, you've probably hired one.
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Redshirt Army / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Though Call of Duty squadmates can be capable in their own right, they merely exist to hold off the mooks until you can blaze a trail through them. An interesting aversion are the plot-critical redshirts, who absolutely refuse to take any damage until just after their usefulness runs out.
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Redshirt Army / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: Phoenix Squadron, introduced in Season 2. First appearing in "The Siege of Lothal", the Squadron is shown to do pretty well against average TIE fighter squadrons, but near the end, find themselves on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle from Darth Vader, with only a small number of them surviving. Afterward, they usually have at least one unnamed pilot getting killed whenever they get a space battle scene.
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Redshirt Army / int_c8436b4a	comment	The Green Helmets of Cheat Commandos aren't held in terribly high regard by Gunhaver — he hangs up on one pleading for support in a tough battle so that he and the other main characters can celebrate Thanksgiving, dismissing Silent Rip's concerns for their safety by pointing out that they have "like, fifty of them". Even the action figures are viewed as disposable — the straplines on the packaging of their discount 3-packs boast that they're "Extra Melty!".
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Redshirt Army / int_ca2e0d18	comment	Face/Off has FBI agents, cops, special forces and security staff who are reduced to the role of red shirts when they must face Castor Troy in a gunfight. It's as if only Sean Archer has ever taken on Castor and lived to tell the tale.
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Redshirt Army / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!, in both the anime and real life. Think about it. All monsters in the game have the highly specific role of acting as a meat shield between you and your opponent's monsters. They can die incredibly easily if you have the right deck. On the other hand, they can be upgraded into a Badass Army with Equip Spell Cards.
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Redshirt Army / int_cdedd56a	comment	In Exo Squad, the other exosquads are treated like this. Especially Baker Squad. In early episodes, the Jumptroopers were also treated this way, but once the Charlie-Fives show up, this ceases.
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Redshirt Army / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: The Atomic Knights are a step up from the usual. While they do have top-notch training, good teamwork and state of the art equipment, they're still essentially Red Shirts.
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Redshirt Army / int_d0e25eb9	comment	Heavy Object: Units attached to Objects serve as this, primarily existing to die in droves in order to support their Elite and inconvenience the protagonists. The 37th Maintenance Battalion is no exception aside from the protagonists and a handful of side characters like Myonri who lived long enough to get a second appearance.
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Redshirt Army / int_d3381e70	comment	In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the loyal SHIELD agents that guard the Triskelion get mowed down left and right by the HYDRA infiltrators and the Winter Soldier after Captain America reveals the truth. To be fair, in their case it wasn't that the SHIELD agents were incompetent, just massively out-manned and outgunned. In even fights, such as the battle for the main control room, the SHIELD agents manage to give as good as they get.
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Redshirt Army / int_d38fe19f	comment	Star Wars: Clone Wars: When Anakin Skywalker takes off alone to chase an enemy Force-user, Obi-Wan orders a squadron of clone troopers to follow him and save him from getting himself killed. When the clones arrive, they proceed to split up and get wiped out over the course of about three minutes, without ever seeing the enemy. Amusingly enough, clone troopers are the predecessors of storm troopers, perhaps indicating that the trope is inheritable.
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Redshirt Army / int_d4e47577	comment	Bravo Team in Doom³ gets wiped out before you even find them. Except for two, one is picked off by a Wraith shortly after you meet him and the other one manages to survive and escape on his own.
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Redshirt Army / int_d531b6f7	comment	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) The Flying Legion gets strafed by radio-controlled ornithopters, with exploding hangers and airships galore. On returning to the devastated airbase the only concern of the protagonists however is missing colleague Dex. Mind you, we don't really see anyone die, so perhaps the killer robots were acting under Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy rules too. Franky's (Commander Francesca Cook's) Amphibious Squadron/Manta Team — pilots of planes that can convert from flying to underwater travel and back again. Most of them are wiped out during the approach to Dr. Totenkopf's island, and the last couple of them mysteriously disappear after they fire their cluster torpedoes at a robot and are never seen again, with no explanation.
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Redshirt Army / int_d5b9ab68	comment	In the execrable movie Time Chasers (mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000), the main character is rescued by his past self, who sought aid from the Continental Army... who can't subdue a single Corrupt Corporate Executive with a semi-automatic weapon. Their suckage is lampshaded by the hero's past self commenting "I don't think they've ever seen an Uzi before."
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Redshirt Army / int_d796465d	comment	The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers is a deconstruction of this. It shows you what it would be like to be a part of a Red Shirt Army. A large part of the story involves the characters either trying to avoid their presumably inevitable demises or flat out pretending they aren't at risk of dying. The Followup The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Has a two issue arc where 6 of the lowest ranking Decepticons scour a battlefield, lamenting on the death and destruction everywhere. One even mentions how the battle took place, Megatron and Optimus both locked themselves in pods feeding them information from all combatants on their side, he mentions how an entire army was reduced to a set of statistics.
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Redshirt Army / int_d7e4b70e	comment	Gantz: Any and all non-Gantz hunters will be utterly useless when it comes to fighting the aliens, as seen from the Osaka arc onwards. Many Gantz hunters and whole teams die in their fights, with the ship infiltration in the End of the World arc being an exemplary instance.
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Redshirt Army / int_dcb78c8c	comment	In the Resistance series, the soldiers are often treated as red shirt, killed in scripted events for the introduction of new Chimera enemies, killed in other scripted events, though it is possible to save a few from a few scripted events where you could still move. In R:FOM's case, they were more than redshirts, seeing that you are the only survivor out of the entire army that were sent/left to defend England.
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Redshirt Army / int_dcbaf050	comment	Thor: Love and Thunder lampshades this after Gorr attacks New Asgard. When one of the townsfolk exclaims half their warriors are dead, another reponds half their warriors are always dead.
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Redshirt Army / int_de8fbcb1	comment	The US military in Godzilla (2014). Not that they're incompetent though, just that they're facing off against something that can emit electromagnetic pulses which disables electronics, something that the military relies on heavily. And small arms fire, or even tank shells against heavily armoured creatures that even nukes can't really harm doesn't do much to slow them down. Fortunately they realize that Godzilla is more interested in hunting the MUTO's than attacking humans. The army is well aware of their red shirt status, but they're willing to bite the bullet to save as many lives as they can. This trope is actually something of an Invoked Trope /Discussed Trope, as when the Mutos and Godzilla are heading towards San Francisco Admiral Stenz says something along the lines of "I am throwing away hundreds of lives every minute just trying to steer one of those things away from populated areas, and there are two more of them." Downplayed with the drop troops in the climax, as they manage to take back the stolen nuke from the MUTO's nest and take it to a near by boat. Although they do get killed by the Female MUTO, they manage to distract her long enough for Ford Brody to move the boat.
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Redshirt Army / int_dfabfce5	comment	Red Dead Redemption II: Dutch and his gang are terrified of the prospect of drawing the attention of the US Army, but when they actually show up, they're pushovers — scared farmers' sons and city boys with little training and even less experience, no match for hardened career outlaws even with sheer numbers on their side. The fact that the colonel in charge of them is an incompetent Miles Gloriosus looking for one last bit of glory before he retires and even tries to get his Only Sane Man second-in-command court-martialed and hanged for treason because he tried to sue for peace with the Wapiti.
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Redshirt Army / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Initiative soldiers in Season 4, who took a little under an hour to catch up to the Slayer, and took her 17 seconds to disable the lot of them. This was in training; they lasted less time in actual combat. Appears throughout Season 7 with the Potentials. When the army of Potentials storms both the winery and the Hellmouth in the series finale, they take massive losses. Justified Trope by their lack of Buffy-level superpowers and training. Season 8 has newly activated slayers taking up this role.
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Redshirt Army / int_e365af07	comment	This has invariably happened a few times in Dino Attack RPG, among the cases one minor group of disguised agents is accidentally gunned down in a friendly fire incident. Believe it or not, this was actually inverted during the final battle. After Trigger deserted the team he was relentlessly pursued by Pharisee who led a small squad of agents, the only one given any particular development being his second-in-command Montgonel. These events culminated in a violent confrontation between Trigger and Pharisee that resulted in the other being knocked out. When facing the others, Montgonel was critically wounded (he survived, but was out of commission for the rest of the RPG) and Trigger was fatally wounded, while at least three of the aforementioned redshirts that accompanied Pharisee emerged unscathed.
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Redshirt Army / int_e4d5575	comment	The human footmen in Warcraft (2016) die in droves every time they show up on screen. To their defence, there hasn't been any war in Azeroth in centuries, while their enemies are battle-hardened veterans from a dying world, and remarkably enough, the "red shirts" manage to accomplish all of their goals through magic support and sheer determination.
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Redshirt Army / int_e5d5d23c	comment	In the original Doom, the protagonist's entire military unit is wiped out before the game starts (the protagonist then blasts his way through a demon-filled complex that bested an entire unit of elite soldiers). You find their corpses all the way through hell though, so it's obvious some of them managed to progress (and they probably reduced the number of enemies you face...). I'd say they were quite badass, just not badass enough. Given DOOM has a love of invisible teleports, sudden ambushes and all other life-ending trickery liberally scattered around every map, it's more likely that these marines were minding their own business and then suddenly found themselves being whisked away and killed off horribly in the space of a few seconds.
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Redshirt Army / int_e5de407c	comment	In the X-COM games, you start out with a team of these. Expect casualties. It gets worse. If you ever lose one of your trained and effective soldiers (and it will happen), you get to replace him or her with...Ricky Redshirt. An expected and encouraged use of your forces is as follows: trained soldiers in the back, tanks (don't improve and are always the same stats) in the middle to take any explosive damage, and Ricky Redshirts in the front, to die repeatedly. Save Scumming also works, although it's made more annoying that you can save but not load in Battlescape. Naturally, in X-Com's Spiritual Successor, Xenonauts, it's happening again!
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Redshirt Army / int_e67a7d6c	comment	The Magical Teachers and Students in Negima! Magister Negi Magi during the Mahora Fair arc were woefully unprepared for the fight... so Negi cons the entire student body into making a second Redshirt Army for this fight.
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Redshirt Army / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain: Each of the HERO OF THE IMPERIUM novels will inevitably feature a part where Cain is forced to enter the jaws of hell, usually accompanied only by his sidekick and army (possibly with a few Mauve Shirts thrown in). The trope is however subverted as often as it's played straight, to the end that you can usually never tell if the book's army will survive or not: Several Mauve Shirts in the series actually came from Cain's (more successful) escort missions. Amusingly, he once refers to a group of allied soldiers as redshirts. Granted, they are wearing red since they're Mechanicus troops, but they end up slaughtered to a man nevertheless.
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Redshirt Army / int_e6c59cd1	comment	Subverted in Quake IV. Sure, a lot of Marines do die over the course of the game, but hey, it's war. At least they're able to hold their own very well in individual firefights, and they actually do manage to win the war while the player character merely spearheads the most essential operations. In fact, in most cases when Marines leave the player character it's because they have orders to hang back and secure a checkpoint, rather than because they were killed off by the enemy.
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Redshirt Army / int_e75c6d45	comment	In Goblins, they wipe out part of an army by using a shield that triggers random major magic effects whenever it's hit. [1] This tends to subvert the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy in that the redshirts that do hit are probably doomed while those who miss may live, or perhaps the goblin is doing a redshirt-type act, as in the background it hints at the word "redshirt" not "redshirts" — which reminds long timers that the shield is random enough to backfire killing the goblin, upgrading the enemies, summoning weird dangerous stuff, or worse.
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Redshirt Army / int_e9cb2780	comment	In Gears of War 2, the purpose of the rest of the (helmeted) Gears seems to be getting shot. Frequently in the head, for extra fun.
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Redshirt Army / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf's mission in Book 4 at first is to discover the fate of a hundred strong unit of cavalry led by Captain D'Val. Lone Wolf sets off with a force of fifty Rangers; the medieval equivalent of Special Forces. True to the trope, regardless of whatever decisions the player makes, the entire force is either forced to return home, ends up missing, or killed in increasingly unlikely ways (e.g. bandit ambushes, falling through floorboards in a mine, eaten by a giant squid, eaten by a giant worm, eaten by giant cats, falling into a pit trap). Averted with the actual cavalry Lone Wolf was sent to find. During the book's climax battle they live up to their reputation as fine soldiers and rout their numerically superior foe. Lone Wolf's involvement in that battle isn't actually that significant (no One-Man Army scenario here). If anyone is wondering why the pit trap death is silly, it was located in the middle of a corridor, activated when Lone Wolf unlocks the door at the end. If its purpose was to keep an intruder from opening the door, it's the most poorly designed trap ever. It was very obviously designed to kill anyone accompanying an intruder opening the door.
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Redshirt Army / int_ea377bc0	comment	System Shock 1 & 2 also show one as deceased bodies waiting for you to take their loot and diaries to finish the job they couldn't. To be honest, player character in System Shock 2 had the advantage of some illegal neural implants and guidance of insane AI considering him her avatar, though the latter eventually meant additional Big Bad to deal with. Protagonists from both games also have the advantage of the experience of everyone that died before. For example, most people who died in the early hours didn't know about the cyborg conversion chambers, the CPU core controls on the elevators, and so on.
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Redshirt Army / int_ea8d16e2	comment	The CDF troops in Iron Kid are a prime example. When their general tells them to guard his defeated foe (who was a VERY dangerous villain), you just know how this will end.... If you thought it was going to end with "Villain wakes up, pounds the troops, then runs." then you would be wrong. It was more: "New guy pounds the troops, takes other villain and runs." To make it more embarrassing, said new guy was just a normal Flying Mook.
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Redshirt Army / int_eaba4c34	comment	An Impractical Guide to Godhood: The legionnaires sent after the Golden Fleece suffer rapid attrition against the various threats in the Sea of Monsters, and few of them survive direct combat with a serious enemy unless that enemy wants prisoners or defectors. Only five ships out of thirteen survive long enough for Athena to recommend withdrawing their forces from the region, and one of those ships is too damaged to leave the island it settled on.
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Redshirt Army / int_eaeeea9b	comment	Lampshaded in StarCraft II with one of the Marines' annoyed lines: "Has anyone else noticed how no one seems to come back IN to the barracks? They happen to be so expendable that when medics where introduced in Brood War, their life expectancy has extended... to a whooping nine seconds.
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Redshirt Army / int_eb6719f6	comment	SeeD in Final Fantasy VIII. Understandable as, even though they're trained to be elite mercenaries contracted by governments, they're still teenagers with very little real combat experience. Fortunately, they're still able to protect their home base from an invasion by the current military superpower, and hold it off long enough for the protagonists to take down the enemy commanders.
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Redshirt Army / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z sees multiple cases of Redshirt armies ripped apart by horrifically powerful aliens and androids. By the time the Buu saga rolls around you'd think they'd have learned that when someone is spotted who flies and uses Ki Attacks its best to just sit back and wait for those other flying folks to take care of the job before sending waves upon waves of men to die.
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Redshirt Army / int_eeaaec28	comment	The entire UEAF navy in Martian Successor Nadesico seem to exist purely for blowing up. They rarely do anything and in one episode when the Nadesico's mechs start firing on them accidentally, easily destroy ships which allegedly cost more than the titular ship.
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Redshirt Army / int_eed321b1	comment	Ars Magica: Grogs are mundane minor characters who do ordinary jobs for Magical Society, like guarding gates and binding books. When roped into magical adventures, they tend to get killed, possessed, stolen by fairies, laid low by magical plague, and/or afflicted by other Butt-Monkey misfortunes.
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Redshirt Army / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	Towards the end of Revenge of the Sith, nearly the entire Jedi order are wiped out within the space of 60 seconds or so, with the exception of Yoda who survives but gets his ass handed to him by Darth Sidious and Obi-Wan who dove into the water. Jedi throughout the series had been presented as tough, badass dudes that are hard to kill and deceive, but it took clone troopers to wipe them out no less. The difference with the clone troops is that they took the Jedi by surprise. The clones had been their loyal and trusted men, and suddenly they all pointed their guns at them and started shooting — they never saw it coming.
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Redshirt Army / int_f13ccedd	comment	Chaos Heat have several levels where you're accompanied by some marines, but don't expect any of them to survive by the end of the stage they appeared.
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Redshirt Army / int_f1881696	comment	In the first Majesty, this would be the definition of your henchmen. They do their jobs with no concern for self-preservation. Two of the three guard henchmen, city and palace guards, even come dressed in red. The other guard, the veteran guards in blue, can replace city guards. They serve little actual combat purpose other than the occasional kill, being distractions for heroes, and not costing anything to replace if (or when) they die.
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Redshirt Army / int_f1da64b5	comment	The Lord of the Rings trilogy uses this a lot. There's Haldir's Elves at Helm's Deep; Faramir's company in both the defeats at Osgiliath; most of Minas Tirith's guard; and most of the Rohirrim when going up against the Mûmakil.
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Redshirt Army / int_f236a7c7	comment	In Eric Flint's Belisarius series Rana Sanga comments on the battle described in the Bhagavad Gita, how it is the most famous battle in all of Indian history and how no one remembers even one of the names of the mere mortals who did all the dying.
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Redshirt Army / int_f38b71c3	comment	Also in its sequel game Dead Space 2, when Isaac tries to enter the Government Section on the Sprawl and takes out the power grid in order to access to the Section, the entire villain's military force is immediately overrun and crushed by hordes of Necromorphs.
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Redshirt Army / int_f3ae2950	comment	In the first mission of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, the two unnamed suit-clad Maverick cyborgs do quite well against Desperado mooks but get their arses handed to them quite easily by Sundowner. Jetstream Sam mops the floor with the rest. At least the Maverick guys get to die to bosses, though; the soldiers of the African country are slaughtered en masse by the mooks you go through by the dozen.
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Redshirt Army / int_f3dc974e	comment	Also used in the story of Starcraft: Arcturus Mengsk sends Sarah Kerrigan and a large group of soldiers to a suicide mission to cover his ass. Jim Raynor spends the rest of the franchise on a vendetta for what Mengsk did to Kerrigan, and none of the redshirts with her are ever mentioned.
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Redshirt Army / int_f3e1f424	comment	Merlin (2008): The Knights of Camelot, apart from the named ones...and even many of them got it eventually. Or in the case of Sir Leon, a couple times.
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Redshirt Army / int_f4a04cd2	comment	The U.B.C.S. in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis don't put up much of a fight, unless they were named. Somewhat justified, as Umbrella intended for them to fail so that the Supervisors could collect data on how their monsters fared against trained soldiers. The SWAT team from the start also counts.
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Redshirt Army / int_f72beb23	comment	Because Of The War: Taylor triggers at a 100-strong gang war(started specifically to kill her and kidnap proto-love interest Canary). No gang members survive.
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Redshirt Army / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: In the Wham Episode, "Severed Dreams", this trope is tweaked with Security Chief Garibaldi arranging sensible defensive tactical positioning for his troops for expected invaders. However, the Narn troopers under his command insist on charging headlong into the fray and the regular guards have no choice but to follow them. The episode "GROPOS" has Franklin's father use the station as a staging area before deploying his men to take a heavily guarded fortress. They take the fortress, but most of the men (Including every named character among them apart from General Franklin) die.
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Redshirt Army / int_f7f52529	comment	Thunderball: The American Coastguard frogmen sent against Emilio Largo and his SPECTRE frogmen team carrying nuclear bombs off the coast of Miami in the climax. An epic underwater battle with harpoon guns as primarily weapons ensues, with plenty of deaths on both sides. Then Bond arrives and turns the tide of the battle.
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Redshirt Army / int_f8705c18	comment	Both the unpowered human soldiers of the Hellsing organization and their Wild Geese mercenary replacements fall into this, being near-useless against the enemy vampires in close range (to their credit, the Wild Geese were well-aware of it and took pains to engage the vampires at long-range, but unfortunately were unable to keep it up). The ghouls fall into this category as well since they are little more than vampire-controlled, mindless zombies.
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Redshirt Army / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Somewhat averted in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the tenth game of the series. Not only are the Green and Yellow units able to stand up against the enemies, some of them are just plain necessary to get by a battle with minimal casualties, and you can give orders to the yellow units, to say, block a path of enemies to serve as meat shield.
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Redshirt Army / int_fa5e90fd	comment	Longbow in City of Heroes are a paramilitary group who actually wear red, and white. Established by a superhero (the granddaughter of the setting's Superman equivalent), their costumes and ethos are styled after four-color superheroes, and they even use similar weapons and powers. They're the most common enemy in City of Villains, to the annoyance of the player base. While Longbow are clearly a reference to this trope, the only reason they're not likely to win against Arachnos is because their opponent consists of much more versatile Charles Atlases and spider-shaped cyborgs. They easily qualify as Goddamned Bats later in the game. The change that allowed both hero and villain characters to use any character archetype meant that players could make their own redshirt army by playing a heroic Mastermind. The Thug Mastermind's "Gang War" power, in particular, summons a large number of individually weak gang members for a short time.
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Redshirt Army / int_fa85cc4f	comment	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: In "POINT to the Plaza", the rank-and-file P.O.I.N.T. troopers don't accomplish much in the fight against the giant Gloop aside from a few of them getting eaten.
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Redshirt Army / int_fbf33963	comment	An odd variation occurs in Inception. The resident Badass Crew has to deal with constant attacks by heavily armed soldiers/bodyguards while moving through the dreamworlds, but this is because they're "projections" created by the dreamer's subconscious, whose primary purpose is to protect that dreamer. In effect, they're a sort of mental security force. Fortunately, being projections, they aren't actual people, though depending on how well-trained the dreamer is at resisting mental intrusion the projections can be anything from an angry mob of unarmed civilians to highly-trained and heavily-armed soldiers.
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Redshirt Army / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: As the first season goes on, the Rebels and the Georgian Federation join forces to form an army of 300 men ("The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"). In the episode "The Longest Day", one Monroe Republic drone strike reduces the number from 300 to 30. President Foster states that this is half of her army wiped out, and she assigned 200 Georgian troops to Miles Matheson.
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Redshirt Army / int_fe24dd6f	comment	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault has similar plot-important redshirts who sometimes spontaneously die after they have served their purpose. Unlike COD's, they completely lack Plot Armor, requiring you to protect them.
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Redshirt Army / int_ff536b75	type	Redshirt Army
Redshirt Army / int_ff536b75	comment	Subverted and used in Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Subverted because the military arms its soldiers with the most advanced weaponry around, gives them telepathic links to each other and their guns and trains them to be incredibly effective soldiers. Used because the universe is just that damn dangerous and 75% of them don't last more than 5 years anyway.
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Redshirt Army / int_ff9ca30	comment	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption had an encounter between three Space Pirates and three Galactic Federation Marines. Two of the Marines get gunned down, and then the third activates his PED and owns the Space Pirates on his lonesome. He's not the only PED trooper; in the next room you see one wasting a Pirate who's focused on you, and another shoots down a pipe and kills two of them in one go. The GFM troopers remain fairly competent for the remainder of the game as well. Until the obligatory escort mission where they forget that their mission is to survive. Instead they throw themselves suicidally at enemy forces, despite knowing full well their bodyguard (you) could handle all the combat solo.
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Redshirt Army / int_ffc6c28f	comment	In the book the film is based on a blurb on the back cover of the MI are most definitely not an example. The few battles where MI die in large numbers are generally due to being vastly outnumbered and facing an enemy that is essentially We Have Reserves incarnate.
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The Last Samurai / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Last Stand / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Lord of the Rings / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Lost World: Jurassic Park / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Magic Sword / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Matrix Reloaded / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The One / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Patriot (2000) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Return of Godzilla / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Rock / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Scorpion King / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Seventh Curse / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Shaolin Temple / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Spirit / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Spy Who Loved Me / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Terminator / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Three Musketeers (1993) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Wild Geese / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Wolfman (2010) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The World Is Not Enough / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Thor / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Thor: The Dark World / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
TRON: Legacy / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Under Siege / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Universal Soldier: Regeneration / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Universal Soldier: The Return / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Vera Cruz / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Warcraft (2016) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
White House Down / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Willow / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
X-Men: The Last Stand / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Alien vs. Predator (Franchise) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dead Space (Franchise) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Destroy All Humans! (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Faction Paradox (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Godzilla (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Gundam (Franchise) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Halo (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Jurassic Park (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Pirates of the Caribbean (Franchise) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Spyro the Dragon (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
StarCraft (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Terminator (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Thunderscape (Franchise) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series (Lets Play) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Boatmurdered (Lets Play) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Deathgate (Lets Play) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Towersoared (Lets Play) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Heavy Object / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
KonoSuba / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Lord Marksman and Vanadis / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Rebuild World / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
A Certain Magical Index / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
A Game of Thrones / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
All Quiet on the Western Front / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Armada / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Bernice Summerfield / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Chronicles Of The Realm Wars / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Ciaphas Cain / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dark Heavens / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Death Troopers / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Destroyermen / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Encryption Straffe / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Everybody Loves Large Chests / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Gate / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Heavy Object / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Illuminated / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Imperium / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Inheritance Cycle / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
KonoSuba / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Kyo Kara Maoh! / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Lone Wolf / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Lord Marksman and Vanadis / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mattimeo / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Mistborn: The Original Trilogy / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mistborn: The Original Trilogy / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Monsters in My Mailbox / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Of Cinder and Bone / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Phantoms / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Rainbow Six / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Reach for the Skies / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Rebuild World / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Redwall / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Shadow Ops / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Sharpe / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Skulduggery Pleasant / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Soledad O'Roarke / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Space Marine Battles / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Teito Monogatari / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Botticelli Horror / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Dogs of War / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Elenium / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Guild of Specialists / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Iliad / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Outlaws / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Prophecy of the Stones / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Relic / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Salvation War / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Unknown Soldier / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The War Gods / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Winter Queen Contingency / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Tortall Universe / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Trapped in a Dating Sim: Otome Games Are Tough For Us, Too! / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of That Otome Game is Tough for Us / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Treasure Island / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Wool / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
World War Z / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockC	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
DeadHerring	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
ImperialGuard	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
RedShirtArmy	sameAs	Redshirt Army
SilkRoad	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
Zombieland	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
A Certain Scientific Railgun (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Ceres, Celestial Legend (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Claymore (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Food Wars! (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Freezing (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Gangsta. (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Gantz (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Getter Robo (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Go, Go, Loser Ranger! (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Hellsing (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Inuyasha (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Knights of Sidonia (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Majestic Prince (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Nichijou (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Reborn! (2004) (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Seraph of the End (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Shutendoji (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
TerraforMARS (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The World God Only Knows (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Tokyo Ghoul (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Toriko (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Uzumaki (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Chonchu (Manhwa) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dorothy of Oz (Manhwa) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Cape and Cowl (Roleplay) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
DigimonBrokenCode	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
Hyperspace Evangelion (Roleplay) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Mass Effect Relinquish (Roleplay) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Red Dawn +20 (Roleplay) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Vapor: A Steampunk RP (Roleplay) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Ang Probinsyano (2015) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Athena: Goddess of War / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Battlestar Galactica (1978) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Falling Skies / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
FlashForward (2009) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Gotham / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Himitsu Sentai Gorenger / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Iris / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Into the Badlands / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Iris (2009) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Kamen Rider Kabuto / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Kamen Rider Kuuga / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Krypton / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Lab Rats / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Legend of the Seeker / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Power Rangers Ninja Storm / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Power Rangers Time Force / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Primeval / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Star Trek: Voyager / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Stargate Atlantis / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Supergirl (2015) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Caesars / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Following / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Last Kingdom / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Mystic Knights of Tir Na NÃ³g / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
True Blood / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
24 / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Warrior Nun / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Westworld / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Sweeten That Aesop / Sugar Wiki / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Adeptus Evangelion (Tabletop Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dragon Strike (Tabletop Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Risk (Tabletop Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Sentinels of the Multiverse (Tabletop Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Spirit Island (Tabletop Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Army Men (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Battle Engine Aquila (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Beholder (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Berwick Saga (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Broforce (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Call of Duty (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Call of Duty (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Chaos Heat (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Civilization (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Commandos (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Conqueror's Blade (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Control (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Crimson Skies (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Crysis (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dark Souls II (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dawn of War (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dead Space 2 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Deep Fear (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dementium: The Ward (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Destroy All Humans! (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Devil Survivor 2 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dino Crisis (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dirge of Cerberus (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Disney Universe (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dragon Nest (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dubloon (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Duke Nukem Forever (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dune II (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
DynaMarisa 3D (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dynasty Warriors (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Earth Defense Force (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Earth Defense Force 2025 (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Elsword (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Eternal Card Game (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Evil Genius (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Evolve (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Fire Emblem Warriors (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Fire Warrior (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
First Encounter Assault Recon (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Freedom Fighters (2003) (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Friday Night Funkin' (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Front Mission (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Ghoul School (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
God of War II (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Grim Dawn (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Guns, Gore & Cannoli (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Halo 2 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Halo: Combat Evolved (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Halo Infinite (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
House of the Dead (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Hyrule Warriors (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Immortal Souls (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Infernax (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Jagged Alliance (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Jurassic Park (Arcade) (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Kid Icarus (1986) (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Killzone (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Knights of the Round (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Land of War - The Beginning (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
League of Legends (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Legendary (2008) (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Limbus Company (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Lords of the Fallen (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Lords of the Realm 2 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Majesty (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mega Man ZX (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mega Man Zero (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Metal Slug (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Metal Wolf Chaos (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Metroid: Other M (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mortal Kombat X (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mount & Blade (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
NanoBreaker (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Nether Earth (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Operation Na Pali (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Parasite Eve 2 (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Quake II (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Quest for Glory V (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Rebel Assault (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Red Faction (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
REDLINE (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Redline: Gang Warfare 2066 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Resident Evil 6 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Resident Evil: Outbreak (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Resistance (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Robot Alchemic Drive (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Rogue Survivor (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Rome: Total War (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ryse: Son of Rome (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
SPV3 (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Saints Row (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Samurai Warriors (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Sdorica (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Sengoku Basara (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
7th Dragon (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
7554: Glorious Memories Revived (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Slurpy Derpy (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Sonic.Exe: Spirits of Hell (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Sons of the Forest (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Spectrobes (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Spore (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Star Trek: Armada (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Star Wars: Episode III â€” Revenge of the Sith (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Star Wars: Republic Commando (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Starsiege (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
SteelEmpire	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
Super Robot Wars Destiny (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Syphon Filter (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Terminator Dark Fate - Defiance (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Crystal of Kings (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Evil Within 2 (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Secret World (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Silver Case (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Thing (2002) (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The XCOM Files (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Thunder Force (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Tiger Knight: Empire War (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Tiger Road (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Torchlight II (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Total War: Three Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Touken Ranbu Warriors (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Turbo Overkill (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Underhell (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Unreal Tournament III (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Urban Dead (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Vanquish (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Wadanohara (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
WarGames Defcon 1 (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Wargroove (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Warriors: Legends of Troy (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
World War II Online (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
X-COM (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
XIII (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Zone of the Enders (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Castle Crashers (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
[PROTOTYPE] / Videogame / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Valiant Hearts (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Muv-Luv Alternative (Visual Novel) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Muv-Luv Unlimited (Visual Novel) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
My Girlfriend Is the President (Visual Novel) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Club Penguin Shutdown (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dead Fantasy (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Diamond in the Rough (Touhou) (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Invader Zim: A Very Tall Problem (Web Animation) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Plastic Apocalypse (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Quirky Misadventures of Soldine the Cyborg (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Red vs. Blue: Zero (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
StarCrafts (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Fedora Chronicles (Web Animation) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Spartan Legacy (Web Animation) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Boatmurdered (Web Video) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mr. Plinkett Reviews (Web Video) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Emerald (Web Video) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Beyond the Western Deep (Webcomic) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Chess Piece (Webcomic) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Chicanery (Webcomic) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
City of Dream (Webcomic) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Dominic Deegan (Webcomic) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Kid Radd (Webcomic) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Looking for Group (Webcomic) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
One-Punch Man (Webcomic) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Servants of the Imperium (Webcomic) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
7FATES: CHAKHO (Webcomic) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Aladdin: The Series / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Atlantis: The Lost Empire / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Blood of Zeus / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Disenchantment / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Exo Squad / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
FlashGordon	seeAlso	Redshirt Army
Generator Rex / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Jackie Chan Adventures / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Justice League vs. The Fatal Five / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Odd Job Jack / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Potsworth & Company / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ratchet & Clank (2016) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Star Wars: Clone Wars / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Star Wars Rebels / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
SWAT Kats / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Boys: Diabolical / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Hobbit / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Nuttiest Nutcracker / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Venture Bros. / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Titan Maximum / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Totally Spies! / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Transformers: Cyberverse / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Su Yung (Wrestling) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
WWE (Wrestling) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Macross 7 / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Hammered Down / Fan Fic / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers / Fan Fic / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls (Fanfic) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Avengers Grimm / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Everworld / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Machinima) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
redshirtarmy	sameAs	Redshirt Army
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
D.Gray-Man (Manga) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ultraman Leo / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Tech Infantry (Tabletop Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Castle Series (Web Animation) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army

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