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Training from Hell on an industrial scale. An ultra-hardass military training regimen that produces disciplined, strong soldiers by brutal methods that would drive human rights activists into a rage if the soldiers weren't volunteers. May involve live-fire exercises with real bullets, survival training that consists of getting dumped naked into the wilderness a hundred miles away, then returning to base to be woken in the dark and screamed at during obstacle courses by Drill Sergeant Nasty, anything to keep the casualty percentage in the double digits. One wonders how they've calculated the point where the gain in quality stops being worth the loss in numbers. The trope takes its name from Sparta, an ancient Greek city-state famous today for uncomfortably similar training methods. As with Training from Hell, in real life these methods are typically used as a selection process, to determine which candidates possess the exceptional mental and physical fortitude for the job. Training the actual combat skills that will be used in the field usually involves more standard methods. As an aside, studies show that, in real life, brutal training is not automatically good training. Armies that rely on abuse to maintain discipline actually perform worse than armies that maintain discipline via professionalism and respect. Studies of Soviet units during the Second World War showed units led by the harshest officers fought worse and broke earlier than others. Likewise, the eponymous Easy Company featured in Band of Brothers suffered similar casualty rates as other companies during combat, despite having a "Spartan" Captain during training while others did not. If you hear the term "Super-Soldier", it will usually involve this, often with the addition of medical procedures that have a sizable mortality rate on their own. This will often result in a Badass Army if done properly and taken to the proper level. May result in Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training if the soldiers aren't given a balanced education outside of warfare. When this kind of training is actually simply a way of living due to living in a tough environment, you get Had to Be Sharp. |
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BOPE training in The Elite Squad. And the officers are already told not to burst trainees' eardrums or cut off fingers, although those are claimed to be accidents. The very first thing that happens is the trainees getting slapped and shouted at until at least one person breaks. It also includes beatdowns and being made to eat food that's been dumped onto the ground. Nascimento notes that the brutality is deliberately meant to weed out those who can't take pressure and punish the corrupt; usually only 5 out of every 100 make it all the way through. He claims it's tougher than Israeli training. | |
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In Achille Talon there's a dialogue which goes along these lines: | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Garrett's idea of training Ward is to abandon him in the woods for six months with nothing but the clothes on his back and a hunting dog for companionship. It's actually quite similar to the actual Spartan training regimen, in that Ward doesn't just learn to be tough; he learns to be smart and sneaky, stealing what he needs to survive just as much as he hunts and kills it. Since this training is to get him ready to become a deep-cover operative (called on to befriend and betray fellow agents), when Garret finally returns he orders him to literally Shoot the Dog to prove that emotional attachment and the bonds of friendship won't deter him. | |
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From The Universiad, Office of Special Resources training is among and some say the most brutal in the Forum. Though many details are highly classified, known aspects include being made to do mined running and obstacle courses for days without rest, live-fire exercises involving artillery and replacing targets while under fire, reliving past OSR operations and close-quarters combat courses that are rumoured to include a Room 101. | |
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RWBY: Welcome to Beacon Academy! Since it's your second day, it's time to catapult you over a cliff into a forest infested with giant monsters. Figure out how to land yourself, then grab a "Relic" and try not to die! Made it? Time for some studying, such as the Professor bringing a monster into the classroom and telling you to fight it to the death. Of course the cast takes it in stride... except Jaune. Downplayed in RWBY as this is a course for a specific group of people that is not the norm for everyone in society. Fighting monsters and landing from a great fall are all implied to involve a lot of prior vetted studying and the only reason it staggers Jaune is because he enrolled with forged records. |
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Among the G.I. Joe action figures (whose backgrounds and file cards were written by Larry Hama, primary author of the comic series), most Cobra soldier types from the Strato-Viper onward were given intense training. Alley-Vipers (urban troopers) had to take a full burst of automatic fire across their body armour and run down a gas-filled corridor without a gas-mask. Night-Vipers were raised from a young age in unlit, windowless bunkers. Range-Vipers (jungle troopers) were not given any supplies or rations and had to live off the land and steal ammunition from enemy ammo dumps. Night Vultures (aerial recon troopers) were given no formal training before being dropped over shark infested waters with their hang gliders at least five miles from land. Most Cobra Vipers also received some form of physiological augmentation. When questioned in the letters pages of the G.I. Joe comic, Hama said: "Cobra has no ethical limitations on research and no lack of willing volunteers." | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: A driving school fits its trainees with guillotines that decapitate them if they mess up. | |
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Open Blue has several Spartan way regimens. Sirene puts volunteers from its already hardcore marines under additional training to make them Stormtroopers (no, not that kind). Additionally, the top 1% of these are given even more training to become the Royal Family's Praetorian Guard. Proud Merchant Race Remillia is no slouch either. Its most elite forces are known as Angels and are brutally trained from the age of three. They are then deployed into action at the age of thirteen. | |
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Power Rangers Samurai: Most of Lauren Shiba's life after being hidden can be summed up as this: Train, Exercise, Practice the Sealing Symbol. | |
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Naked Weapon features a wide variety of pubescent girls being kidnapped from around the world and sent to a tropical island. After immediately killing anybody who says 'Yes, I wanna go home!', they spend the next six years in a nonstop boot camp teaching the girls everything there is to know about firearms, human anatomy, unarmed combat, and social interaction, honing them into the world's finest assassins. As a penultimate final exam, they are assembled in their barracks and told that they have two minutes to kill half their number or they will all die. In the actual final exam, they are forced to compete in a gladiator-style tournament until only one remains. However, their "performance" is so great that the Madam allows three to survive instead. They get drugged and raped on their graduation, just to drive home that their bodies are not their own. | |
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It could be argued Dean and Sam Winchester of Supernatural were raised this way after their mother's death when Dean was four and Sam six months old. | |
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In Starship Troopers, the Drill Instructor takes on the biggest new recruit (casually breaking his arm), the new transfer recruit (rendering her unconscious with a knee to the carotid artery), and pinning a third's hand to a wall (for asking why they need to learn ground maneuvers when you can simply push a button on a nuke). Each time, after using said recruit for the "training demonstration," the DI causally calls, "Medic!" | |
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Parodied in The Insane Quest of Unfathomable Randomness when Sir Rustynuts recounts his days training to be a knight: | |
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Homestuck: Troll society is vicious, demanding, and unforgiving. Children are expected to grow up on their own, fend for themselves, and protect themselves against Alternia's many dangers — which, in addition to vicious predators and the undead, include each other, due to Alternian culture encouraging competitiveness, aggression, and backstabbing. On Alternia, you either grow into a vicious, hardened survivor, or you don't grow up at all. | |
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Cassandra Cain, the second official Batgirl. She was trained to read human movement as her only language and become an unparalleled assassin in a classical Spartan way, up to and including being shot in nonvital areas as punishment -- with the threat of being shot again for crying out from the pain. | |
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Blue Yonder: The training starts by pushing you off the mountainside. | |
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The Guardian (2006): Coast Guard rescue swimmers as taught by Kevin Costner. | |
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Nilenira, in The Movolreilen Saga combines this with Matriarchy. | |
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The Peacekeepers of Farscape are usually raised this way. In most cases, procreation is assigned, parental love is frowned upon if not outright illegal, and children are trained from birth to be stoic, obedient goons, with emotional attachment seen as an unforgivable weakness. Heroine Aeryn Sun's entire character arc is about overcoming the mindset this loveless, violent upbringing has given her. In an interesting subversion, Anti-Villain Crais was drafted as a boy along with his doomed younger brother — he was actually raised on a farming colony, by a clearly loving father. | |
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In Deadly Prey, the Big Bad's Start of Darkness was caused in part by a disagreement with his superiors over whether or not to use these methods to train elite soldiers. | |
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Magick Chicks: Artemis Academy is an all girl military school for monster hunters in training. As such, their curriculum includes full-contact combat exams where anything is allowed: even use of summons. They consider defending their school from the boys at Apollo Academy to be a recreational sport. And according to their rules: the penalty for being caught trespassing, during a breastplate raid, is a broken appendage. | |
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In Titans (2018) deconstruction of Kid Sidekicks their training is shown to be Harmful to Minors. Dick Grayson mentions how Bruce Wayne took him to a cabin in the woods, then made him go out into the dark to face his fears. One scene shows the young Grayson being chased through the woods by a wolf. The next scene shows him entering the cabin holding a bloody knife, then dumping the wolf's head on the table. | |
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Girl Genius: The Skifander warrior training Zeetha puts Agatha through is meant to leave the trainee almost entirely incapable of movement for the first few hours after it's complete each morning during the early stages. | |
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The commandos in Soldier are raised brutally from birth and treated brutally thereafter, only to be replaced by a new generation of genetically engineered soldiers. | |
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On Deadliest Warrior, most of the subjects are claimed to have gone through something like this, having fought since childhood and/or been trained harder than anyone else. The accuracy of these claims varies from case to case. | |
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Mulan has a mild version of this. "Let's get down to business..." | |
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Outsider: The Loroi raise the children of their military caste by dumping them in the woods with bows and spears to learn proper warrior values and survival skills. | |
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The DCU: Doomsday was raised by Kryptonian scientists by sending an infant into the cruel wilderness of Krypton, getting it killed, harvesting its DNA, cloning it so that it kept the memory of how it was killed, then repeating the cycle over and over and over and et cetera until it became one of the ultimate killing machines in the universe, able to beat Superman to death. (This blurs the line between this trope and just Training from Hell, depending on your view of clones.) Cassandra Cain, the second official Batgirl. She was trained to read human movement as her only language and become an unparalleled assassin in a classical Spartan way, up to and including being shot in nonvital areas as punishment -- with the threat of being shot again for crying out from the pain. |
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Subverted in Tiberium Wars; the document at the end of Chapter Twenty-Three explains that the reason why the GDI commando program has a "22% fatality rate and 98% washout rate" is because people make the mistake of assuming that commandos are trained in the traditional manner. Commando "training" is simply the fact that you're even in the commando program to begin with. There's only two ways out of the commando program once you join: you leave and go back to the regular military ("washing out") or you die in combat. People criticizing or praising the "brutality" of the "training" are misrepresenting it for their own ends. | |
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First Order stormtroopers in The Force Awakens are said to be trained that way since childhood, plus of course political indoctrination. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Unsullied undergo hellish training that makes them immune to pain and robotically loyal, but the methods used are even worse than anything in real-life Sparta. Before becoming full-fledged Unsullied, each recruit must go to the slave market and murder a slave child in front of its mother, and then pay a silver coin... to the mother's owner. In the books, the Good Masters also give each of the would-be Unsullied a puppy to take care of after they are castrated at the age of five. At the age of six, the would-be Unsullied must strangle their puppy to demonstrate their willingness to follow orders. Any trainee unable to do so is put to death. More of them fail that test than the later baby test. | |
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Judges in Judge Dredd, with the severity of the training varying by jurisdiction. In Mega-City One, training begins at the age of 5, and the cadets face live-fire exercises at 14. | |
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Quite possibly the most abused trope on NationStates, sometimes taken Up to Eleven by turning an entire state into this. | |
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Spoofed on Monty Python's Flying Circus, where a regiment of Scottish kamikazes have a 99% fatality rate in training. Their instructor, Mr Yashimoto, was so good he didn't even make it through Tokyo airport alive to come train them. Of course, the reason that only one person survived the training regimen of the McKamikaze Highlanders is not due to the harshness of the training, but because they were so eager to die for their country that they couldn't bring themselves to wait until they were ordered to do so (The one person to survive was forcibly restrained so that he would stay alive until he actually received his orders). |
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Yokoka's Quest: The Darkness Clan is a dangerous place, for both its inhabitants and outsiders, best described by its leader in the below quote: | |
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Heavily deconstructed in Sonic X: Dark Chaos. Cosmo's race tried to turn the ten year-old Tsali into the "Ultimate Weapon" by replacing every single body part with robotics (without anesthesia), infusing his mechanical body with Dark Chaos Energy abilities, and putting him through Training from Hell that would make a Space Marine wince. It backfired horribly; by the time it was over, Tsali was nothing more than a bloodthirsty Ax-Crazy berserker — he promptly committed genocide upon the entire Seedrian race in revenge the instant he escaped. | |
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The eponymous family/ethnic group/master race of Ynglinga Saga. | |
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In Astro City, the Civilized Animal gorillas live under this because they live under a rift in reality. | |
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GIs in Rogue Trooper. | |
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Firefly implies that what the Academy was doing to River and the other test subjects is a small-scale, prototype version of this, intended to create psychic killing machines. | |
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Exaggerated to parody during the tour of Royalton Industries in Speed Racer: Royalton racers need to be able to eat noodles with chopsticks on a centrifuge, pass an eye exam on a vibrating chair, and take a jet turbine's worth of freezing air to the face. | |
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In The Deserter, Kaleb subjects the squad to some brutal training methods while teaching to think and act like Apaches. He makes them strip off and train under the full heat of the desert sun so they will understand just how hot it gets, and appreciate the luxury of wearing clothes. When Fighting Irishman O'Toole falls to his death during a climbing exercise, Kaleb complains that he screamed while he fell instead of remaining silent. | |
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In The Bourne Series, it's implied that the CIA assassins in the Treadstone and Blackbriar programs are subjected to a brutal training and brainwashing regimen in order to condition them to be the perfect assassins. In this case the downside is also shown in that Bourne suffered from amnesia due to a misfiring in that brainwashing. | |
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Invoked by Star Trek: The Next Generation when the crew rescues five male teenagers from a Talarian "basic training" ship, one of whom turns out to be a human boy raised by Talarians. The Talarians (at least, the males, as Talarians and their military are highly patriarchal) are depicted as a warrior society where male children are essentially raised by their military. The human boy, Jono AKA Jeremiah, even calls his adoptive father, Endar, his "Captain," and the crew assumes Endar abuses him because Dr. Crusher's medical exam shows a history of broken bones. However, when Endar shows up to get his son back, it's evident that, although Talarian society expects macho warrior behavior from Jono and his peers, Endar clearly loves Jono and is affectionate toward him in ways that are appropriate in their culture. He even threatens to start a war over the kid, despite his squadron of warships being significantly outgunned by the Enterprise. It's not played completely straight because the crew spend a lot of time assuming that Endar must be some kind of monster, even though Jono's medical history is fairly typical for a boy raised by Talarians who encourage males to be physically competitive and participate in high-risk sporting events, in a similar way to high school athletes. But the existence of underage teens in military uniforms aboard a military training vessel being typical of (male) Talarian child-rearing is this trope. | |
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