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Tattered Flag
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Normally a flag flies proudly on the breeze as a declaration of the power and authority of its nation. To be fit for display, a flag should be intact and untarnished, and if it is not it is generally ceremonially destroyed. Sometimes, however, a flag will be displayed that is dirty, full of holes, or reduced to ribbons. When this occurs, it generally means either that the flag has been used during a fierce battle, or that the nation it represents has fallen on hard times. Why else would they allow their standard to be shown this way? Other times they can be used as a sign of defiance or hope. The country, though battered and torn, is still standing and will survive. They are also commonly found in After the End settings or amidst the ruins of a fallen civilization. Occasionally, flags like these can be kept and preserved if they are significant in some way, one that was present for a landmark event, for example. A patriot who has served their country may display a bullet-holed, battle-scarred flag in a glass frame in their Trophy Room. Compare Burning the Flag, for when a flag is being deliberately destroyed as a protest. Examples |
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Hopeful version; as the Autobots and their allies stand triumphant amidst the ruins of Chicago, a shredded American flag is seen flying behind them. | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises as the police force gathers for the fight with Bane's people, ruined American flags are shown flying from nearby buildings. | |
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The end of In the Valley of Elah shows a tattered American flag being raised upside down. The Tommy Lee Jones character had corrected this same mistake at the beginning of the story, explaining that it signals an S.O.S. At the end, he's decided that message is appropriate. | |
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Seen during the attack in Pearl Harbor, a ruined American flag floating in the water. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim a skeleton can be found in Winterhold clutching a tattered flag, apparently from the last stand of the Knights of the Nine. | |
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The tattered Old World flag is the symbol of Ulysses in Fallout: New Vegas, as he talks of flags and what the men flying them stand for. There's even one on his Badass Longcoat. | |
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The second case occurs in the Warcraft series. Orc (and the Horde in general) flags are generally in tatters but are still proudly flown to symbolize how much of a beating they are willing to take in order to achieve victory. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic ridicules the Pearl Harbor example as poor and cliched use of the Rule of Symbolism. | |
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In the film of The Red Badge of Courage Henry charged with the tattered Union flag. He captured the Dixie in the end, more tattered than the Union flag. | |
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Overwatch: The graphic of the ruins of the bombed-out Overwatch HQ shows a ragged Overwatch flag standing amidst the debris. | |
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Fallout 4 has the option to craft flags to hang on the walls of your settlements. In addition to the US flag, you can craft a flag for each of the factions you're currently in good standing with, although even though they're "newly made", they're still ratty and full of holes, with the exception of the flag for the Institute, which is far less ratty. | |
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Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation: Shown in an ironic transition shot. After a propaganda reel espousing the virtues of the war against the Arachnids, a proud and neat Federation flag turns into the flag flown by a battlefield unit, torn and weathered. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Scorched and ruined flags are seen throughout the Government District on Corellia, which has become the site of a battle between the Republic and the Empire for the planet's fate. | |
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Found everywhere in Fallout, where it's a reminder of the franchise's Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair theme. Plenty of ruined Old World buildings will have a partially-decomposed American flag hanging somewhere. The tattered Old World flag is the symbol of Ulysses in Fallout: New Vegas, as he talks of flags and what the men flying them stand for. There's even one on his Badass Longcoat. Fallout 4 has the option to craft flags to hang on the walls of your settlements. In addition to the US flag, you can craft a flag for each of the factions you're currently in good standing with, although even though they're "newly made", they're still ratty and full of holes, with the exception of the flag for the Institute, which is far less ratty. |
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Wat's Pig: Wat returns the ruined flag of the nation to the castle after the first battle. | |
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The Heroes of Might and Magic III intro has a tattered Erathian flag found and displayed in the ruins of Cloudfire, a town that the Nighon forces invading Erathia destroyed. Catherine, a princess of Erathia who married the king of Enroth, takes the flag and uses it to rally the troops that will liberate her homeland. | |
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The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Omega Glory" shows an After the End version of Earth following a nuclear war, with one faction being descendants of their version of Americans, complete with a ruined Old Glory. | |
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Interstellar. The Lazarus missions mark their habitat with a US flag along with a mission flag. Naturally after years exposed to the elements of an alien world, they become extremely tattered. At the end of the movie, Dr Brandt is shown burying her dead lover under a rock cairn next to his destroyed habitat with its tattered flag, then is shown walking to her own functioning habitat with intact flags flying. | |
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One Piece: Tattered flags are often used for high drama, but nothing quite beats Luffy standing atop of the castle in Drum Island holding Dr. Hiruluk's flag, which somehow manages to stay intact despite receiving heavy bombardment. Luffy, a proud pirate, goes through all the trouble to protect the flag because he knows that's how important the symbol of the Jolly Roger is. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the royal banners outside of Rohan's Golden Hall are so beaten up, one of them gets torn off by the wind. This was completely unintentional, but worked so well the director left it in. | |
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Encyclopedia Brown: In "The Case of the Wagon Master", in a moment of In-Universe Fridge Logic, Encyclopedia realizes that a man lauded as a hero shouldn't have gotten a medal because according to the story being told, the man saw the flag over a fort (that had been taken over by hostile Native Americans) flying in the rain after dark; this should have at least given him cause for concern (as army regulations hold that flags should be put away at sunset or in inclement weather), but he led the wagon train down the pass into the fort anyway. | |
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Left 4 Dead 2, The Sacrifice DLC campaign begins with the survivors trekking through a zombie-infested dockyard that had been occupied by the military and FEMA expy CEDA with the camera prominently showcasing a tattered US flag flapping in the wind. Doubly significant because of the canon death of Bill, a Vietnam War veteran at the end of the campaign. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the scene of the Endeavour's sinking shows the banner of the East India Company submerged in the water, with a body fallen from the destroyed ship caught in its folds. | |
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The Day of the Triffids (1981). The audience's introduction to the Beadley Group is a shot of a British flag, already looking frayed at the edges presumably from not being taken down at night, flying over the University of London Tower where they've made their base. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: On Soviet missions, the mission failed screen shows a conscript weeping over a ruined Soviet flag. | |
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A battered, bullet-riddled Dominion flag appears at the beginning of the Starcraft II Wings Of Liberty cutscene "Fire and Fury", representing the damaged-but-defiant condition of the Terran troops themselves. | |
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The 1964 version of The First Men in the Moon has lunar astronauts discovering, to their astonishment, an old worn-out Union Jack left by Victorian age explorers. | |
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Can be seen in Logan's Run where the Old Man lives in what used to be the U.S. Senate chamber. | |
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In World in Conflict's multiplayer, there's a subtle example in the two flags shown at the top of the screen amongst other important match info. The flags start pristine and become increasingly tattered as units are lost. Since reinforcements are infinite and objectives are what counts, it's possible for the flag in worse shape to end up winning the match. | |
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Gone with the Wind shows a tattered Confederate flag flying over the train yard scene. | |
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In an episode of Revolution, Monroe launches an attack against a rebel stronghold, using a newly re-powered helicopter, and riddles the places with gunfire, slaughtering everyone inside, and leaving the flag they have hung there full of bullet holes. | |
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