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It's exciting. It makes you a stronger, better person. It breeds Badasses. It's finer than Spring. The sacrifices may be extreme, but are extremely noble, maybe even saintly. In many ways the opposite of War Is Hell. Some people deeply enjoy waging war, rather than just endure it. The Shell-Shocked Veteran might have a different view on the matter, though. Common features: Do Not Do This Cool Thing: the color and excitement of war. The adrenalin overload of peak performance with death on the line. Note most of the examples below have a visual component. From this comes the famous quote of French filmmaker François Truffaut, “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film,â€� as merely depicting war inevitably creates a fascination with it. Military experience brings Band of Brothers, discipline, strength, enfranchisement in society and inspires the soldiers' lives with purpose. Those who won't fight are shamed and cannot understand the value, lacking in the military virtues. Soldiers get to trade on the attractiveness of a man in uniform. The soldiers — particularly the heroes — do not commit war crimes. Would Not Shoot a Civilian is in full effect; no one would Kick Them While They Are Down; etc. If any atrocities do occur, then you can be sure that only the enemies will be the ones committing them. Earn Your Happy Ending: War Is Hell, but the victory was yours and you made the best of what comes afterward. Look What I Can Do Now!: An appeal towards personal achievement, I Just Want to Be Badass and you get respect when you reveal your combat record. Not all War is Glorious works are war propaganda, but all war propaganda says that War is Glorious. Both tend to be marked by dehumanisation/demonisation of the enemy, censorship of the motivations for war, sanitisation of wounds and deaths, whitewashing of war crimes, dismissal of pacifism as insanity/weakness, etc. In a war propaganda work, these things take center-stage whereas a War is Glorious work may or may not feature these, however incidentally. War is Glorious has a natural association with the justification of wars. For example, the cost of avoiding a war can be shown as greater than the cost of fighting it. Many serious justification of wars lie outside this trope, being no more jingoistic than a surgeon is in favour of open-heart surgery.note i.e. "as needed", not "when you feel like it." By the same token, this attitude is very often used in recruiting pitches to get people to join the service. Soldiers are badass; do you want to be badass too? When war is part of the Back Story, former soldiers may invoke this trope by remembering the camaraderie, excitement, and purpose of their Glory Days, the war, as opposed to the greed and selfishness of subsequent civilian life, which leave them Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life. War is Glorious and War Is Hell are not exclusive categories. And it is perfectly possible to aim for one trope exclusively yet be received as the other. In some cases, War is Hell can be served as a deconstruction of War is Glorious tropes. It's also possible to play War Is Hell straight, while simultaneously praising the heroes who went into that Hell for the sake of a worthy cause. It should be noted that sometimes this is not the work's theme, but the mentality of the General Ripper inside the work, serving as the foil to the heroes' belief that War Is Hell. Compare Propaganda Piece. Contrast Prevent the War. See also Proud Warrior Race and War Has Never Been So Much Fun. A character with this mentality is firmly a Warrior in the Soldier Versus Warrior dichotomy. Because of how controversial this is, No Real Life Examples, Please! |
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Homefront — although it portrays war as horrible, inhumane, and with even the "good guys" committing horrible atrocities, it also portrays the rebellion against North Korea as completely necessary and justified. | |
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Apocalypse Now: Colonel Kilgore wholeheartedly enjoys the war: he does not flinch at bombs and bullets, and is shown heading a helicopter attack to the Ride of the Valkyries. The film itself though, is anti-war. | |
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Parodied in the third chapter of Voltaire's Candide: | |
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William Shakespeare's Henry V is this trope in its purest form. | |
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Pick an Amon Amarth song. Pretty much any one. | |
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Deconstructed in Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, since in the nondescript spacefuture anyone can destroy a planet with the push of a button, war is fought on 'public opinion', and the point of it all is to say 'War is Cool' and make the raddest, coolest army around...which has left the soldiers they grew and genetically modified with serious hang-ups, knowing they could be modified at any moment to increase public visibility, or mentally fucked with just so they can be 'more like Batman'. Of course, this can also backfire on the army, as marketing decided the Commander punching the Admiral would be 'mad bitching' and will allow one punch with no repercussions, preferably in public. | |
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Every other song by Manowar (just look at the band's name). Look at "Call to Arms": Similarly, Hammerfall is just Manowar with even MORE fantastical elements. While Manowar has a 'low fantasy' barbarian theme Hammerfall has a clanky Knight Templar Sword Brethren theme. Chorus linked above for instance: |
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Dog Days take this trope to Serial Escalation. Helped by the fact that battles are restricted to certain enchanted areas of the countryside where people can't die. With the threat of death removed, wars are mostly done for fun and profit, and overall training in case of actual demonic outbreaks that happen occasionally. | |
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The Tales Of Ensign Stål: The glories of war are definitely a major theme, though how straight it is played has been the subject of many scholarly articles and much academic yelling for over a century. The mainstream opinion seems to be that Runeberg lionises the valor and deeds of individual soldiers, while painting war and the political machinations behind it as a whole as vile and stupid. | |
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In Pippin, the number "Glory" is entirely about glorifying war. The aftermath proves a bit sobering, however. Before that, "War Is A Science" depicts Pippin's father planning an attack in a more tongue-in-cheek manner. | |
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Cotton Hill from King of the Hill and his fellow VFW members holds this view to a degree, always bragging about how he killed "fiddy men" during WWII and talking about his war experiences that may or may not have happened. This eventually comes to a head when the VFW has to include Vietnam vets in order to stay afloat, with the old guard fondly remembering their WWII days and mocking the PTSD-addled Vietnam vets for losing the war until they snap and try to kill them. | |
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Isabelle of Paris: The French military are portrayed as badass gunslingers, and the Parisian commoners are full of Patriotic Fervour, willing to fight even if they don't have arms. While Isabelle has roots in the upper-class, who are normally unconcerned with war, she refuses to stand idly as her country burns and joins the war effort. The series doesn't shy away from showing the ugly side of war, but it's also portrayed as a matter of national pride. | |
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The infamous Mortal Kombat: Annihilation has Shao Khan saying, "Earth is under attack, and It! Is! GLORIOUS!" This is also the sequel that amped up the Fanservice to the detriment of the plot or good filmmaking. | |
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Pretty much every one-off bad guy ever ( and most of the recurring ones) on Xena: Warrior Princess, and Xena herself before her redemption. | |
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Every other song by Bal-Sagoth. Look at "The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire": | |
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This is the mentality of Apollyon, the primary villain of For Honor. After a thousand years of war, the knights, samurai, and Vikings have begun to seek peace. Apollyon finds this disgusting and leads her Blackstone Legion in a campaign to incite war between the factions once again so that the "wolves" among them will be freed to do what they were meant to do. | |
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The Metal Gear series is notable in that while its creators clearly do not have this outlook, many of its characters do which often leads to many Do Not Do This Cool Thing moments. | |
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In Hussar Ballad, a Russian musical comedy, every main character would agree that the only real glory comes from fighting in the war. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins most sensible characters view war very negatively, however King Cailan is eager to fight the Darkspawn because he's heard all the stories of the Grey Wardens' glorious victories... he dies fairly ignobly in the first few hours of the game, himself and his entire army betrayed by his own general Loghain. | |
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300, in all its oily pec-ed glory. | |
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In The Stormlight Archive, the Alethi are a Proud Warrior Race who preach this message, even claiming that valorous warriors who die in battle will join the fight to retake Heaven in the afterlife. Part of it is the basic problem of nobles not understanding what it's like down in the trenches, but there's also the fact that the Alethi are stricken with the "Thrill," a bloodlust that drives them to fight and contest, especially in real battle. It lets them ignore the horrors of war, even when they're right in front of their faces. | |
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"Indestructible" by the band Disturbed from the 2008 album of the same name. Their song "Warrior" definitely qualifies as well. |
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Sabaton mixes this up with War Is Hell, writing as they do about real warfare. "To Hell and Back" takes the Tennyson approach - while lamenting the costs of war, it also makes a point to glorify the soldiers who went into the fire. | |
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Dorothy Catalonia and Treize Khushreneda claim to believe this in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, but it may have been an act. It's more obvious a subversion with Treize, since his ultimate goal is to produce a war so horrific that the powers-that-be would think twice before going to war again. He even keeps a list of every single person who died under his command. Somewhat zig-zagged with Dorothy, whom later reveals that she actually loathes wars and wants peace, but understands that peace cannot just be given to the people. If she truly believes in this trope, it's because she sees war as a means to help people open their eyes and realize that War Is Hell and in turn learn to realize how precious and fragile peace really is. At the beginning of Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Al and his friends all think that the One Year War is totally cool. (They're ten years old, and the war is being fought with Giant Robots, can you blame them?) By the end of the series, Al has become thoroughly disillusioned with that notion. |
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The Big Red One is the only major World War II film directed by a veteran of that conflict and Samuel Fuller shows by and large that War Is Hell with little time for Band of Brothers sentimentality and conventional wisdom. He does assert at the end, via Author Avatar and budding writer Zab(Keith Carradine) that, | |
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Star Trek: The national philosophy of Klingons. | |
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Reconstructed in Starcraft II. As Raynor says, some things are just worth fighting for. | |
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Storm of Steel: Whereas most accounts of World War I emphasize the pointlessness and horror of the fighting, Ernst Jünger takes a different approach, treating it almost as a boys' own adventure, but without ever glorifying the war or flinching away from the violence and terror. | |
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Parodied in Hot Shots! Part Deux. After Harbinger heroically kills a bunch of enemy soldiers, he turns to the camera with a grin and says, "War: It's faaann-tastic!" This comes mere minutes after Harbinger reveals himself to be a Shell-Shocked Veteran, unable to continue killing... until Topper gives him a Rousing Speech. | |
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The hero of Patton certainly views war as glorious, but the film's director was more ambiguous (and a close reading of the picture reveals this). | |
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The Wind and the Lion is made of this trope, with pretty much every character (be they Theodore Roosevelt, the Raisuli or the Marine Captain) eager for armed conflict. Topped off by the Captain's comment: | |
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Mulan, where the Chinese soldiers are constantly talking (if not singing) about the personal improvements and honors of war. Though the opposite trope also shows up, particularly when the army arrives at a village only to find it already razed by the enemy. | |
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Speaking of older American war stories, this trope is still played straight in 1922 novel One of Ours by Willa Cather. Claude Wheeler, a young dreamer who is discontent with his Small Town Boredom life as a Nebraska farmer, finds purpose in life after he goes over to France to fight in World War I. Even in 1922 Cather took criticism from folks like Ernest Hemingway for writing of the war in this way. | |
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Even the pacifistic religions sometimes to have this in their backstory. Several examples pop up in the early books of The Bible. Ephesians 6:10-18 compares the Christians' struggle with sin and the Devil to a battlefield, with the Apostle Paul urging his followers to "put on the whole armour of God," which, considering the time period in which it was written, may have been modeled on a Roman legionary's uniform: |
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Hellsing - Have you heard yet that the Major loves war? Because he does. Ultimately deconstructed by Integra; according to her, war is only glorious to creatures who can't stand life, and the Major's love of war ultimately amounts to a sixty year long suicide attempt. | |
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Nightwish plays it straight... ... and inverts it: |
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Game of Thrones: This is how Robert likes to portray his warrior days to other people. Subverted in that in odd moments of clarity it's clear it's not so much war itself but the purpose war gave him. In fact when recalling his first kill in battle, his boisterous attitude noticeably falters as he's inadvertently dragged up an unpleasant memory. | |
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Taps: Cadet Shawn starts a gunfight with the National Guard with a machine gun (outnumbered 100:1 and they have a tank) rather than admit defeat during their standoff. When confronted by his friend and commander Cadet Moreland he raves about how beautiful the battle is. A second later he's shot about a hundred times. | |
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Heather Alexander (now Alexander James Adams): March of Cambeadth is probably one of the most jovial sounding. "Courage Knows No Bounds" is primarily about War Is Hell and a wasteful Pyrrhic Victory, but it makes a point to commend the courage of the singer's comrades, who stood and gave their lives for that worthless victory. |
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Glory. Black soldiers, many of them former slaves, go down fighting against slavery. That said, the actual battle scenes and some of the scenes around it (like inside a field hospital where men are being amputated after the film's first battle), pretty firmly show what a cruel, grim, bloody mess the war actually is. | |
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In Hamilton, Hamilton really wants a command during the Revolutionary War so he can rack up heroic deeds and build a legacy worth protecting. He is not throwing away his shot at being a war hero. | |
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This is what Tempus, the main War God in the Forgotten Realms is about, and he takes measures to ensure that is what he remains about (specifically, he is involved in a Divine Conflict in which he overmatches the other side to a nearly ridiculous degree — but while he could easily smash Garagos, he doesn't want to pick up Garagos' portfolios of bloodlust and destruction). | |
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Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness has a strange relationship with this trope and War Is Hell. On the one hand, Thanfiction bangs the drum of how horrible the final battle will be... but on the other hand, most of the DA are quite excited by the prospect of fighting Voldemort. The story plays them up and contrasts them to Harry and company, who try to avoid the war entirely... in the favor of the children about to be slaughtered. All in all, the story's schizophrenic. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: "In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war..." And awesome. Even the lowly Imperial Guard are sometimes depicted as having a good time, or at least "winning glory and honor". The Iron Warriors Traitor Marines are a special case because its played in a particularly messed up way. The Iron Warriors know that War Is Hell and they love every minute. Pure, unadulterated contempt for life is all that motivates them and war is the ultimate way for them to express that hatred. The Orks were bred for War, and their entire culture is built around it. |
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Unsounded: Ssaelism teaches that all men must be trained fighters, preferably soldiers, who fight for the glory of Ssael and slay the Gefendur so that they may be reincarnated as Ssaelit. The religion glorifies war and a warriors death for men. Duane told stories of the glory in the battles he fought in life and is horrified that he cannot find the same stories in death when faced with the stark reality of war which he was able to deny while reminiscing when alive. | |
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In Team Fortress 2, war is not only glorious, but funny as hell, given all the people involved in the Gravel War (which as more of a Mob War between two extremely rich brothers that control thousands of corporations and outfit their mercenary armies in hats) are eccentric nutcases who love yelling and swearing regardless of their backstories and nationalities. | |
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"Invincible" by Pat Benatar, the theme song for the 1985 movie The Legend of Billie Jean. | |
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Doctor Who: It's the general philosophy of the Sontarans. "The Family of Blood": One of the Family mocks the headmaster for instilling patriotic fervour in his students, knowing that a terrible war will occur in the near future. He asks the headmaster whether his students will be grateful to him for teaching them that war is glorious while they are dying in the mud. The headmaster angrily retorts that he knows War Is Hell, being a veteran himself, but he's still willing to fight for King and Country. |
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BattleTech: The Clans hold this view, at least in regards to ritualized combat. Their entire society is based around stomping around, shooting each other in Humongous Mecha in organized battles. However, they do not extend the attitude to actual war, which they are not very good at, as being a good warrior (and thus, in charge), doesn't necessarily make a good commander, strategist, or make one good at logistics. Further, their peace-time conflicts are heavily ritualized, with plenty of Honor Before Reason. Applying their standards of ritual combat to actual war tends to turn out badly for them when up against more pragmatic foes. A common attitude found in the Draconis Combine, which isn't a big surprise since they're basically Samurai IN SPACE!!! with a traditional belief in their Manifest Destiny to eventually conquer everybody else. |
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9th Company, a Russian film about Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, has a character who mixes this with a dash of Mad Artist: | |
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Discussed in The Arts of Dark and Light. The overall sentiment of the story is far closer to War Is Hell, but various characters opine that it can be glorious as well—at least in certain specific contexts. Its real elements of excitement, heroism, camaraderie, glamor and martial spirituality are acknowledged by the narrative, even as its waste and horror are portrayed fully. In-Universe, meanwhile, the militaristic propaganda of the various powers presents a straighter version of this, with military characters sneering appropriately at that as well. | |
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The Longest Day, though, according to producer Zanuck, unintentionally. | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police have an entire song and dance number extolling the virtues of war, delivered by Agent Superball. | |
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At the beginning of Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Al and his friends all think that the One Year War is totally cool. (They're ten years old, and the war is being fought with Giant Robots, can you blame them?) By the end of the series, Al has become thoroughly disillusioned with that notion. | |
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Prior to the US entry into World War II, Sergeant York was deliberately produced with this trope in mind, as producer Jesse Lasky saw the need for a message film to move the American public from its then-overwhelming isolationism and apathy. | |
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In Blood Meridian, Judge Holden says in one of his many speeches: | |
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The Shadow-Mirrors in Super Robot Wars Advance and Original Generation held this philosophy proudly, as in their world, the lack of war causes humans to become lazy and non-progressive thus they decided to have as much war as possible, because therein lies human evolution and progress. | |
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Jag Panzer spans both medieval and high-tech warfare, and glorifies both deliciously as their name might imply. Warning: May cause your heart to explode due to sheer manliness. Even Patton might have trouble withstanding this assault. | |
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Blood Meridian With Extra Sprinkles: Judge Holden espouses war as glorious and tries to convince The Man to agree with him. | |
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Discussed in Buffalo Soldiers. War may be hell, but waiting around as a US soldier on a military base in West Germany with nothing to do is nearly as bad. When one of the soldiers is beaten up for walking on the wrong part of the base, he points out how his father's war friends are the best of friends, how they still meet up every year, even 45 years later (the films is incidentally set against the fall of the wall). | |
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Black Hawk Down: Generally discussed as a anti-war film, there is a strong positive side. Both the book and film depict the horror of the mission but also the extraordinary success and tenacity of the Americans in completing the raid: less than two hundred men engage in a firefight with several thousand Somalis and kill 1,000 of them, even with serious problems in command and control hindering the raid. | |
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Vacation from Marriage: Although they went through a lot, both Cathy and Robert become better, stronger people because of their experiences in World War II. | |
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Several times in the 1632 series, the up-timers watch the preparation for a battle and remark on how impressive and often beautiful it is. Slightly subverted in that they all feel completely differently about the battles themselves, and especially the aftermaths of the battles, which horrify them. | |
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The Shadows from Babylon 5 believe this is true as part of their philosophy that growth is driven by conflict. They use agents like Morden to tempt people into making deals after asking them "What do you want?" that ultimately lead to war. | |
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Helldivers is aggressively pro-war, but it's a Satire of American neoconservatism and The War on Terror politics. Fight for Super Earth! For freedom and democracy across the stars!... whatever that means. | |
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Fahrenheit 9/11: This is certainly the opinion of the U.S. soldiers that Moore depicts in the film. A tank crew proudly tells him that they play rock music in the cockpit during engagements in the Iraq War. | |
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Starship Troopers, as written by Heinlein. Unlike in the film version, Heinlein's pro-military message isn't undercut with any Robocop-style over-the-top TV commercials. Though Heinlein wrote more about the glory of military service than battle itself, and didn't ignore the bad bits. | |
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