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Band of Brothers

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Band of Brothers	comment	Band of Brothers is a 2001 American war miniseries, based on the book of the same name by Stephen E. Ambrose, that initially aired on HBO in ten one-hour episodes.A Spiritual Successor to Saving Private Ryan (being produced by that film's director and lead, respectively Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks), it follows the men of Easy Company, 506th regiment of the American 101st Airborne Division. Starting with their training in 1942 to the end of World War II, it follows the same unit through D-Day, the battle of Carentan, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge, the discovery of the Concentration Camps, the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest and finally the end of the war. Band of Brothers is almost universally acclaimed for its (often painfully) accurate recreation of war, and for examining the relationships between soldiers in an elite, all-volunteer unit. Just about every part of the series is spot on, and the actors look very much like the men they portray.Some of the primary characters of the series are Major Dick Winters (Damian Lewis), the unflappable leader, Carwood Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg), who steps in to hold the unit together during the Battle of the Bulge, and Captain Lewis Nixon (Ron Livingston), the sardonic and alcoholic intelligence officer.A Pacific Front version of this series, called The Pacific premiered in March 2010. The 2013 German miniseries Unsere MÃ¼tter, unsere VÃ¤ter is similar, focusing on the Eastern Front, in addition to wartime civilian life in Berlin and the resistance in Poland. A miniseries based on the Eighth Air Force, called Masters of the Air, premiered on Apple TV+ in January 2024.Other members of the cast include David Schwimmer as Capt. Sobel (the original commander of Easy Company), James Madio as Perconte, and Colin Hanks as Lt. Jones. Possibly more remarkable are the succession of pre-star actors that appear in bit parts: Simon Pegg, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Tom Hardy, and Andrew Scott.Since Band of Brothers is mostly based on historical and personal recollections of these soldiers, almost all of the tropes below are automatically an example of Truth in Television.Note: This is about the miniseries. For the trope, see Band of Brothers.
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Band of Brothers / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Band of Brothers / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: In Currahee, when asked to leave three "dead men" on the ground during an exercise, Cpt. Sobel picks them by aiming his pistol at each of them in turn, breaking one of the cardinal rules of gun safety — treat every weapon you find or handle as if it's loaded, even if you know it isn't. Almost certainly intentional — it further highlights Sobel's unfitness for command and gun safety wasn't quite as developed back then anyway. Averted twice in the first episode (Currahee): In the opening scene in which Sobel is inspecting Easy Company, every man he stops in front of opens the action of his weapon so that Sobel can verify the chamber is empty. When Hoobler asks an English soldier dressed as a German to try out his Luger, the English soldier hands him the weapon. But not before dropping the magazine and clearing the chamber. Hoobler's poor handling of a Luger is what gets him killed.note To be fair to Hoobler the Luger was a notoriously "unsafe" gun thanks to its rather unique action. Whilst he definitely shouldn't have had any kind of loaded weapon down his pants if it were, for example a Colt 1911 then it would likely have not randomly gone off due to the superior safety on that weapon.
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Band of Brothers / int_1206dd74	type	Victory Is Boring
Band of Brothers / int_1206dd74	comment	Victory Is Boring: The last episode establishes this. After Hitler has committed suicide, the war in Germany is effectively over, but the war in Japan is still going on. So those without enough points to return home essentially have to wait around in Austria for months until they are either called to Japan or the war ends. Thankfully the latter happens.
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Band of Brothers / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Band of Brothers / int_1235f055	comment	Dike is an unpleasant, obnoxious cad in addition to his other fine qualities. He blames everyone, he is standoffish to his men, he's lazy, neglects his duties (he delegates so he doesn't have to do anything), and his attempts at fostering camaraderie with his men are blatantly phony.
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Band of Brothers / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Band of Brothers / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Hoo boy, this one gets used a lot. Granted, it's war, and in war anyone can (and does) die, but it's still rather jarring to spend hours getting to know characters only to have them disintegrated by a direct hit from an artillery shell, have a leg blown entirely off while trying to help a squad mate, or finally find the Luger they've spent the entire series hoping for only for it to accidentally, fatally, shoot them in the leg the same day. Highlighted especially in episodes 6 and 7. However, if a guy appears in a real-life interview at the start of an episode then he obviously won't die in the show. Which is why they didn't name the interviewees until the finale.
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Band of Brothers / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
Band of Brothers / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Darrell C. Powers a.k.a. Shifty, a gentle, mild-mannered young man from Virginia who just happens to be the best shot in the company. He was also capable of telling what kinds of guns were being used from the sound of the shot alone. Of course he's also very modest about it.
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Band of Brothers / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Band of Brothers / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Tom Hanks appears as one of the Red Devils (he is in the back, barely visible). He's also the voice of the wounded German whose cries can be heard throughout "The Last Patrol".
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Band of Brothers / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Band of Brothers / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Zig-Zagged. All that is ever seen when people are shot is a big puff of dust, as per this trope. However, the aftermath of people being shot always entails lots of close ups of very grisly wounds indeed.
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Band of Brothers / int_13d6db18	type	One Last Smoke
Band of Brothers / int_13d6db18	comment	One Last Smoke: Played straight with Speirs. He gives a bunch of German prisoners one last cigarette before he (supposedly) kills them all. Him giving them cigarettes is shown, but he is not shown killing them. The other soldiers don't seem to care that he killed prisoners, but are rattled that he gave them all cigarettes first. Hilariously, a few members of Easy Company panic when he offers them a smoke.
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Band of Brothers / int_1438b582	type	Guns and Gunplay Tropes
Band of Brothers / int_1438b582	comment	Guns and Gunplay Tropes: Instead of listing them all out, you can basically just check off "averted" under nearly the entire listing. Or Truth in Television, such as in the case of Hoobler's accident.
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Band of Brothers / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Band of Brothers / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Several cases of shell-shock, ranging from the horrible to the downright gut-wrenching. A good (or bad depending on how you look at it) example is when Blithe, after getting over his shell-shock and deciding to take the lead on a scouting mission, is shot in the neck. He is shown in a hospital, to create hope that he might pull through, only for the Where Are They Now to reveal he died... but the veterans in Band of Brothers had somehow made an error about Blithe. In reality he was shot in the shoulder and lived until 1967. His family informed them of this after the series had been made. Doc Roe has one momentarily, but snaps out of it, after having to be dragged out of his foxhole, that is. What eventually sends Buck Compton home, but he gets better. PTSD or as they called it back then "Combat Exhaustion" will do that to a man. Liebgott gets a pretty epic one when he's ordered to tell the Jewish prisoners to get back into the concentration camp. He handles it pretty well until they start to object, and ends up sitting down and staring off into space, crying. Notably, the real Liebgott has broken off all contact with the other Easy Company men ever since the war. Prior to Liebgott's BSOD, the previously chipper O'Keefe is shown to be heavily affected by the concentration camp. George Luz has a minor one after watching an artillery shell land on Muck and Penkala, but he snaps out of it pretty quick, as he needs to get to cover. Winters has one as he's placed on leave, trying to adjust to civilian life after the harshness of war's scarred him, while having flashbacks to a young German soldier he killed. In the same episode, Buck Compton, also on leave, tries to watch a film with his friends, but spends most of it staring off into space. Guarnere has one before they even deploy, when he accidentally reads a letter meant for another soldier that mentions that his brother has been killed fighting in Italy.
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Band of Brothers / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
Band of Brothers / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: Lieutenant Jones arrives fresh to the war out of West Point. Many of the soldiers in Easy Co. treat him with disdain and he is quickly Kicked Upstairs. He does get a few moments showing that he has what it takes to be a good officer, however. Said to be the case with most of the replacement officers that join Easy after Normandy: Shames (yells all the time, no matter the situation), Peacock (nice enough as a person, but hopelessly lost on any tactical job), and the one in Holland who wandered ahead of the formation and got shot in the throat by a sniper.
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Band of Brothers / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Band of Brothers / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Lieutenant Welsh starts a fire near Easy's entrenchment in Bastogne. Both Winters and Nixon warn this could draw the Germans' attention. Cue the shelling almost instantly afterward.
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Band of Brothers / int_15c0289	type	Bullet Dancing
Band of Brothers / int_15c0289	comment	Bullet Dancing: Averted. Winters takes a bullet to the foot from a ricochet.
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Band of Brothers / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Band of Brothers / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Done with the show's armored vehicles in episodes 3 and 4 to show how easily the tables can turn depending on which side's attacking. In "Carentan", the Shermans of the US 2nd Armored Division are shown to be more than a match for German assault guns and light armored vehicles, as they hit them while they're advancing and exposed. Come "Replacements", the German vehicles, largely the same as in the prior battle, have the advantage of prepared positions and good cover (and the backing of a Tiger tank), and this time it's the Shermans and Cromwells of the British XXX corps that get shot to pieces.
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Band of Brothers / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
Band of Brothers / int_18baa751	comment	Historical Villain Downgrade: Mostly the German soldiers are portrayed dispassionately as "the enemy." No massacres or atrocities are seriously depicted until the second-to-last episode "Why We Fight" when Easy discovers a concentration camp. The final episode "Points" leans fairly heavily into the "Clean Wehrmacht" portrayal - the idea that the German soldiers were simply honorable warriors doing their duty, much like the Americans themselves. Funnily enough, while German soldiers are treated with respect, German civilians are treated with utter contempt as accomplices to the Holocaust.
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Band of Brothers / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Band of Brothers / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The real Carwood Lipton quotes Henry V and the St. Crispin's Day speech, Trope Namer for Band of Brothers, at the end of the last episode.
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Band of Brothers / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Band of Brothers / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Downplayed. Wearing enemy uniforms during combat is actually a war crime. However: A few soldiers are seen in German uniforms wandering around camp prior to the jump into Normandy; their purpose is to familiarize the paratroopers with German weapons and equipment. Floyd Talbert is accidentally bayoneted by one of his own men, in part because he was wearing a German poncho.
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Band of Brothers / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Band of Brothers / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Sobel's drive and ambition leads him to drive his company harder than any other. Unfortunately (for him), as the members of his company increased in physical fitness and combat skills, Sobel's deficiencies in actual combat become more and more apparent. Eventually he is Kicked Upstairs to head up another training school rather than leading Easy into combat, beginning a series of crushing developments that later drove him to attempted suicide. Fortunately for the men of Easy company, Sobel's ambition and pettiness were effective in getting them to perform when they were at their physical worst, which is one of the bigger reasons they were able to get through the hellish conditions of the Battle of the Bulge.
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Band of Brothers / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Band of Brothers / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Richard Winters. Due to his leadership and exceptional concern for them, the men of Easy Company universally consider him the best commanding officer they ever had. Averted in the case of Herbert Sobel. While the men of Easy Company attribute their survival during the war to his harsh training methods, he had no redeeming qualities and was therefore universally hated. Ron Speirs becomes one for Easy Company over the course of the 3.5 episodes he leads them. he's a fiercely protective one at that, especially shown when one of the sergeants gets shot in the head by a drunk private from another company. Speirs holds the wounded soldier's hand while the medic tends to him, somehow manages to find a German brain surgeon in the middle of the night, and if looks could kill, the responsible private would have died the moment Speirs laid eyes on him. He also chose to stay with the company if they would be sent to the Pacific, rather than go home to his wife and baby like he had the option to do.
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Band of Brothers / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Band of Brothers / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Yep, that's Jimmy Fallon as an officer driving a jeep at the end of "Crossroads", as Easy Company heads to Bastogne.
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Band of Brothers / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Band of Brothers / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Major Horton (imitated by Luz in "Currahee" and mentioned KIA in "The Breaking Point").
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Band of Brothers / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Band of Brothers / int_1bf47ada	comment	Doc Roe qualifies as well.
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Band of Brothers / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Band of Brothers / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: In a fashion — most of the veterans are unfazed by casual violence. For example, when some French Soldiers execute four Germans on the roadside, O'Keefe is horrified. When he looks at the other members of Easy, aghast, Perconte gives him an "Oh, well" sort of shrug, Liebgott just smiles and continues playing with a baseball, and Luz is too busy lighting his cigarette to notice.
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Band of Brothers / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Band of Brothers / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Muck, Malarkey, and Penkala were basically Those Three Guys, making it worse when Muck and Penkala die in Bastogne.
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Band of Brothers / int_1cbde068	type	Oblivious to His Own Description
Band of Brothers / int_1cbde068	comment	Oblivious to His Own Description: After the harrowing events of Bastogne, at the end of episode seven, Captain Speirs is talking with Lipton about how despite a lack of a proper officer consistently watching and helping the men of Easy Company, they always had a leader who kept up moral and made sure things got done. Speirs lampshades this by telling Lipton he is talking about him. It's because of these acts of leadership that Lipton is promoted as an officer.
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Band of Brothers / int_1ce83c47	type	Marshmallow Hell
Band of Brothers / int_1ce83c47	comment	Marshmallow Hell: Perconte enjoys a little... attention from an exuberant middle-aged lady in Eindhoven. When Lip pulls Perconte away, its difficult to tell if Perconte is aroused or traumatized.
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Band of Brothers / int_1dae374	type	POW Camp
Band of Brothers / int_1dae374	comment	POW Camp: The men of Easy Company find and liberate a concentration camp.
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Band of Brothers / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Band of Brothers / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Ron Speirs becomes one for Easy Company over the course of the 3.5 episodes he leads them. he's a fiercely protective one at that, especially shown when one of the sergeants gets shot in the head by a drunk private from another company. Speirs holds the wounded soldier's hand while the medic tends to him, somehow manages to find a German brain surgeon in the middle of the night, and if looks could kill, the responsible private would have died the moment Speirs laid eyes on him. He also chose to stay with the company if they would be sent to the Pacific, rather than go home to his wife and baby like he had the option to do.
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Band of Brothers / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Band of Brothers / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: In episode 5, "Crossroads", the story of the battle to take the crossroads is framed with shots of Dick Winters typing up his after-action report.
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Band of Brothers / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Band of Brothers / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Briefly but graphically in "Carentan" during the tank attack.
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Band of Brothers / int_1f050d03	type	Squad Nickname
Band of Brothers / int_1f050d03	comment	Squad Nickname: "Easy Company"; although this is in theory their official designation, coming their name from "E Company" spelled in a pre-NATO radio alphabet, the name stuck as their best known moniker.
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Band of Brothers / int_207e000c	type	Reveal Shot
Band of Brothers / int_207e000c	comment	Reveal Shot: In "Crossroads," Winters apparently shoots a lone, unarmed, and surrendering soldier. Turns out he's opening fire on a whole company of them.
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Band of Brothers / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Band of Brothers / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Many of the men in Easy Company admit that they had a healthy respect for the Germans, and knew that the German soldiers they were facing were just doing their jobs, just like they were. Once the war ends, Easy Company actually bonds very well with the surrendering Germans.
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Band of Brothers / int_20e0d3e8	type	Tanks for Nothing
Band of Brothers / int_20e0d3e8	comment	Tanks for Nothing: "Replacements" has the British Sherman and Cromwell tanks being picked off easily by German tanks and tank destroyers, all without the Allied tanks being able to fire back a shot. Truth in Television, as the Sherman and Cromwell were outgunned by most late-model German tank types at the time.
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Band of Brothers / int_22711892	type	It Never Gets Any Easier
Band of Brothers / int_22711892	comment	It Never Gets Any Easier: The Medic Doc Roe actually finds that it does begin to get easier, as he begins to connect with the other soldiers, despite his reluctance to get emotionally attached to them.
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Band of Brothers / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Band of Brothers / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: "Foxhole Norman" Dike, who is a complete failure as an officer but can't be removed from Easy Company because he has a lot of high-ranking friends.
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Band of Brothers / int_23cd5152	type	Confound Them with Kindness
Band of Brothers / int_23cd5152	comment	Confound Them with Kindness: When American and German forces wind up entrenched just a scant few hundred yards away from each other and forced to wait out the night, some German troopers are faintly heard singing in the distance. Cue a bemused American soldier wondering "Just what have they got to be singing about?"
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Band of Brothers / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Band of Brothers / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: See Dissimile above.
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Band of Brothers / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Band of Brothers / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: In "Points," when a drunk and probably insane New Meat from Item Company shoots one of The Squad, which is made up of nothing but battle-hardened stone-cold killers with nothing better to do now that they're just occupying Austria (rather than fighting) than exact vengeance for one of their own. Said insane replacement also shot and killed a German and a Brit. After being captured, he's beaten bloody and very nearly executed by Captain Speirs, who lowers his weapon at the absolute last secondnote There's a strong implication that the only reason he doesn't pull the trigger is that he already knows Grant is going to live.
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Band of Brothers / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Band of Brothers / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: From Shakespeare's Henry V, to wit: And you better believe that Easy Company knew exactly what Hal was talking about. (They're even in the right general area; Agincourt is in the north of France.) Of course, their view of war would be rather different...
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Band of Brothers / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Band of Brothers / int_294ed981	comment	George Luz. His surname means "light" in Portuguese (pronounced looz), and he acts as the light of morale of the entire company.
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Band of Brothers / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Band of Brothers / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Speirs, towards his own men. His valor, coldness, and a good helping of gossip make him this quickly. Fades after peace is declared, as the soldiers still see him as a man not to be taken lightly, but not the boogeyman he once was.
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Band of Brothers / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Band of Brothers / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: The patrol episode features an M45 Quadmount antiaircraft gun being used against enemy infantry. Very much Truth in Television; the US Army had a lot more German infantrymen to shoot at than it did German planes, and the quad-50 made an outstanding antipersonnel weapon (a favorite method of engaging snipers in trees, for instance, was to simply open up the quad-50 at a flat trajectory, obliterating the trees themselves rather than bothering to trade shots with the enemy).
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Band of Brothers / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Band of Brothers / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Subverted in the ambush of the German camp in "Crossroads". Webster and Martin confront a few soldiers who hold up their arms and yell. Webster tells Martin that the men are saying they're Polish. Martin quickly debunks this story by revealing the SS pin on one of their uniforms, saying "There ain't no Poles in the SS!" note The Waffen SS had a lot of "foreign legion" type units, but he's correct in that there was no Polish. The Wehrmacht, on the other hand, drafted plenty of soldiers from ethnically-mixed areas like Silesia.
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Band of Brothers / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Band of Brothers / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Don Malarkey has quite a scruffy beard, starting right after two of his best friends get killed, and another has a Heroic BSoD in episode 7. It's not until episode 10 that he's shown clean shaven and (seemingly) happier.
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Band of Brothers / int_31237f3e	type	Custom Uniform
Band of Brothers / int_31237f3e	comment	Custom Uniform: The New Meat are desperate to earn their jump wings. Later, replacement troopers are desperate to earn jump stars. And everyone wants to blouse their trousers (that is, tuck their pants into their jump boots), as it clearly distinguishes the airborne infantry from the regular infantry, whose pants are kept straight. It's so distinctive that when the 101st were deployed to England, they were forbidden from blousing for the duration of the trip so that German spies wouldn't know they were airborne if they were seen from a distance. Becomes a minor plot point in "Replacements" when Cobb mocks Miller, one of the New Meat, for wearing a Unit Citation ribbon for "what the regiment did in Normandy" before Miller joined the regiment.note As pointed out by another of the veterans, this doesn't matter. Any soldier assigned to a unit may wear the citations that unit has been awarded, even if they happened before that soldier was a member of the unit, but may not wear it anymore after they leave the unit. A Soldier who was a member of the unit at the time of the action for which the award was given may permanently wear it, even after leaving the unit. Miller removes the ribbon and leaves out of shame. Ironically, Cobb technically didn't fight in the battle either.note He was wounded while still in the airplane, and was flown back to England instead of jumping. Bull, who did fight in D-Day, quickly calls Cobb out.
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Band of Brothers / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Band of Brothers / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Doc Roe meets a cute nurse helping out in Bastogne (Episode 6). She doesn't survive the final attack on the town.
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Band of Brothers / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Band of Brothers / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: The drunk replacement from I Company who murders several Germans and shoots Sgt Grant gets severely beaten by the men of Easy when they find him, and receives a Pistol Whip from Captain Speirs by negatively answering a question and without addressing him as 'Sir'.
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Band of Brothers / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Band of Brothers / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: All the time in every possible form.
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Band of Brothers / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Band of Brothers / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Sobel's favorite hobby: At the company's very first inspection, he finds several minuscule infractions (some implied to be totally made up) so he can cancel everyone's weekend pass. In fact, cancelling passes for the entire company seems to happen weekly. Did Easy get a single weekend of leave?! He ORDERS Winters to find infractions on the soldiers, even if Winters has to make them up. Winters is an exemplary officer (noted by Sink himself), yet Sobel treats him like crap when Winters serves as his Executive Officer. It's heavily implied to be out of jealousy, as Sobel can immediately tell that Winters is the better soldier out of the two. He leads the company to believe they'll have an easy day at one point. He suggests the mess give them a hearty meal, which they indeed dig into happily. Then he immediately barges in and announces their day off is cancelled, and they are going to have to do strenuous physical training with a full belly, with the explicit threat that anyone who falls out will be dropped from the Airborne. It's a miserable affair and several of them vomit. There is absolutely no reason for this except for him getting a kick out of being cruel. He insults and belittles virtually all the enlisted men, and he never praises. Not to be chewed out by Sobel seems to be the closest to praise you're going to get. He forces Nixon to answer a rhetorical question, and then cancels everyone's pass because he answered it. His last act is his undoing. He tries to ding Winters on a trumped up chargenote He ordered Winters to inspect the latrines at 0800 hours. Sobel then changed the time to 0745 and failed, either by accident or design, to inform Winters of the change. It backfired.
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Band of Brothers / int_3511c4d7	type	Plunder
Band of Brothers / int_3511c4d7	comment	Plunder: What else do you do when you come across the holiday retreats of Hitler, Goering, and other Nazi leaders? Speirs was notorious for this (though it's slightly okay in that he sent all his plunder home to support his pregnant wife).
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Band of Brothers / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Band of Brothers / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: As many of the actors in Band of Brothers were British, there was a chance for accents to slip. In episode 3, "Carentan", one can hear Rick Warden's (who plays Harry Welsh) natural English accent slip through quite noticeably on several occasions. In episode 5 you can hear Damian Lewis' British pronunciation of "lieutenant." And in episode 2, one can also hear Lewis's natural accent slip through on the word "situation."
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Band of Brothers / int_36ae9f5d	type	Traumatic Haircut
Band of Brothers / int_36ae9f5d	comment	Traumatic Haircut: Shown in Episode 4. Many Dutch women have their heads shaved publicly for sleeping with the Germans. Later on in the episode they come across a woman who has been shaved — and she's walking on the side of the road with her baby, implying she was forced out of the village too. Likewise implied in Episode 9, as all the prisoners in the Concentration Camp are shown with shaved heads.
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Band of Brothers / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Band of Brothers / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Perconte complains about the quality of army spaghetti. James Madio played a big spaghetti lover in the sitcom USA High. Buck Compton became a district attorney in Los Angeles later in life. Neal McDonough played a district attorney in Boomtown (2002), also set in Los Angeles.
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Band of Brothers / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Band of Brothers / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Invoked, obviously, for the war as a whole and the advance of the Western Allies from D-day onwards. But very much inverted when it comes to the fates of the individual soldiers. Although several of the surviving real life members of Easy Company are interviewed at the opening of each episode, the makers ensure that the survival of any given interviewee won't be a foregone conclusion by not showing their names until the end of the series.
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Band of Brothers / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Band of Brothers / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: We never do find out why Guarnere wasn't with the unit between the events of "Replacements" and "Crossroads." See Offscreen Moment of Awesome below.
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Band of Brothers / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Band of Brothers / int_3f89452c	comment	Sad Clown: To some extent, George Luz, especially after episode 7. Even so, he does his best to help keep his friends' spirits up. Guarnere does this from time to time as well.
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Band of Brothers / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Band of Brothers / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: While the majority of Easy Company veterans went on to lead successful and happy lives, it's disheartening when you find out that a number of them have already died due to various causes. Plus, many of the survivors, especially those who experienced Bastogne, still carry the emotional scars in some form. Some of the survivors, like Liebgott, ended up breaking contact with the others, never speaking to them again.note Liebgott never told anyone about the war and his own family didn't know about it until they watched this show.
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Band of Brothers / int_40da7cc9	type	Urban Warfare
Band of Brothers / int_40da7cc9	comment	Urban Warfare: Thrice. There's Carentan, Nuenen, and Bastogne, though the last one turns out to be a subversion as the Germans are instead fought in the woods surrounding the city.
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Band of Brothers / int_422cefe3	type	True Blue Femininity
Band of Brothers / int_422cefe3	comment	True Blue Femininity: It's no coincidence that Renee's hair smock is blue.
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Band of Brothers / int_425d74f4	type	Shutting Up Now
Band of Brothers / int_425d74f4	comment	Shutting Up Now: The German baker is livid that the Americans are looting his bakery, to feed the concentration camp victims. He is positively apoplectic... until Webster snaps and shoves a pistol in his face. His whimpering and fear is probably the sole reason Webster didn't pull the trigger.
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Band of Brothers / int_437cbac5	type	Sound Off
Band of Brothers / int_437cbac5	comment	Sound Off: During the scene where Cpt. Sobel orders the company to run Currahee immediately after a heavy lunch, they respond to his harassment by breaking out into a running cadence and leaving him behind. Sobel's stunned reaction is about the same as the Grinch when he heard all of Whoville singing without their presents. We also hear part of the Airborne's rather grim variation on the Battle Hymn of the Republic called Blood upon the Risers: "He ain't gonna jump no more!", "Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die!"
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Band of Brothers / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Band of Brothers / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Frank Perconte is from the Chicago area but James Madio speaks with his natural Bronx accent.
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Band of Brothers / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Band of Brothers / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Winters does this at the end of "The Last Patrol" when he tells them to blow off the second mission. Note that Captain Nixon (and probably Speirs and possibly Lipton) were in on this too: all of them would have faced a serious court martial for doing this. But Winters risks that because he doesn't want to risk more casualties on another mission that really isn't going to make a difference anyway, successful or not.
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Band of Brothers / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Band of Brothers / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: This series is full of Depression-era/World War II men on the battlefield at their best as soldiers and men of honor, especially the likes of Winters, Randleman, Lipton, Roe, and Speirs. And consider, this is just one company in an army full of guys just like the men of Easy. But... Speirs himself expresses this view. He just loves to kill.
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Band of Brothers / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Band of Brothers / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Important shave. Winters makes a point of shaving everyday, even in Bastogne when everyone around him is growing a beard, to emphasize the importance he places on showing his men that he is professional and dependable.
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Band of Brothers / int_47741ade	type	Parachute in a Tree
Band of Brothers / int_47741ade	comment	Parachute in a Tree: The men of Easy Company find a dead paratrooper caught in a tree.
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Band of Brothers / int_47d646a2	type	GenkiGuy
Band of Brothers / int_47d646a2	comment	Genki Guy: George Luz, the clown of the group. It's very telling that the last episode reveals he had over 1,600 people show up at his funeral in 1998.
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Band of Brothers / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
Band of Brothers / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: A sound used while the planes for the landings of Normandy are being shot up and going into flames in the second episode is the crick-crack sound of the skeleton units of Warcraft III being killed.
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Band of Brothers / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Band of Brothers / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Any time there's fighting.
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Band of Brothers / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Band of Brothers / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Austria, Bavaria. To show that the war is winding down.
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Band of Brothers / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Band of Brothers / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Nastily subverted during the Battle of Carentan, when Tipper is on the wrong side of a mortar round and a plate glass window. Initially, the show shows us his uninjured back, with Liebgott staring at him in horror, making the viewer think this is going to happen... until the camera cuts back to Tipper from the front, cut to hell and with ruined legs. He surprisingly recovered.
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Band of Brothers / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Band of Brothers / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: During a particularly nasty artillery barrage in "The Breaking Point", Sgt. Lipton starts laughing because the explosions remind him of the fireworks he played with as a child. He acknowledges how ridiculous it was.
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Band of Brothers / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Band of Brothers / int_4b316d47	comment	Perconte deliberately tries to hurt O'Keefe by giving him the scathing "Reason You Suck" Speech below. It works. O'Keefe's crime? Being enthusiastic. Averted at the last moment when Perconte's expression makes it perfectly clear that he knows he went too far. Perconte does realize (and admits) it's not O'Keefe he's upset about, it's the war in general.
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Band of Brothers / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Band of Brothers / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The concentration camp. Also, the wounds that many of the soldiers suffer.
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Band of Brothers / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Band of Brothers / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The humiliation of Dutch women who slept with the occupying German soldiers. This was a common fate for women across formerly-occupied Europe; by shaving and stripping them their communities ritualistically reclaimed their bodies from the Germans. Male collaborators were shot, though on the other hand, they generally did something more harmful than merely sleep with the Germans. This becomes even worse when you realize that it's very likely at least some of them were raped by German soldiers. Captain Sobel frequently punishes the entire Company for the minor infractions of a few men during training. While certainly Truth in Television during boot camp training, it's implied Sobel isn't doing it to instill discipline, but because he enjoys making the men suffer.
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Band of Brothers / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Band of Brothers / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Winters, Lipton, and Webster provide narration in the episodes where they're the point of view character.
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Band of Brothers / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Band of Brothers / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: While the producers intended to treat the series as a "social document" and reflect the experiences of Easy Company as accurately as possible, it is nevertheless still a work of fiction, and there are some notable diversions from the historical record (both for reasons of drama and basic human error): In the first episode, when Winters opens his charge letter from Sobel, Nixon quips that Sobel misspelled â€˜Court Martial.â€™ In the actual letter, â€˜Court Martialâ€™ was spelled correctly, but â€˜endorsementâ€™ was misspelled as â€˜indorsementâ€™. Rather glaringly in "Why We Fight." The episode opens on April 11, 1945, then cuts to "one month ago." During those scenes "one month ago," Nixon reveals that the President has just died. However, Franklin Roosevelt died April 12, 1945. Then, at the end of the episode, it's back to April 11, and Nixon reveals that Hitler shot himself in his bunker (which would not happen until April 30). In addition, the liberation of the concentration camp as depicted did not occur until April 27. Easy Company are incorrectly portrayed as having reached the Eagle's Nest first, ahead of a French unit. In fact, they were third — the first unit to reach Berchtesgaden was the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division, followed by the 2nd French Armored. However, both units were given orders to rapidly move out before they could stay long — hence why Easy Company got the cream of the looting in a seemingly empty town. Easy Company was also not the first company to reach the Kaugering Concentration Camp. The first was 12th Armored Division, which reached the camp a day before. However, the series somewhat acknowledges the error as the 12th armored is briefly mentioned in the episode. TI Joseph Liebgott is portrayed as a practicing Jew. In fact, while ethnically Jewish, he was a Roman Catholic. note During the war, the rest of the company assumed he was Jewish due to his name and hatred of Nazis. The real Liebgott never corrected them because he found it amusing. Albert Blithe is portrayed as a reluctant soldier who died of his wounds in 1948. In real life, he remained in the US Army until his sudden death from illness in 1967, having attained the rank of master sergeant and served abroad in the Korea War and as a military adviser in Taiwan in the meantime. This rather major error is present in Ambrose's original book too. That being said, the veterans in the Easy Company didn't know Blithe had survived as they lost contact with him in 1948. When Blithe's family made the correction after the show came out, the survivors of Easy were horrified because he had never been invited to the reunions thinking that he was long dead. While charging the dike in "Crossroads", a faulty smoke grenade signal results in Winters getting to the dike far ahead of the rest of the company. In real life, there was no delayed signal; Winters was just that much faster than everyone else. There are two inaccuracies about the battle at Foy. While Lieutenant Dike was indeed an incompetent leader, he didn't just randomly freeze up in the battle like the series showed. In actuality, Dike had been shot, though it was hard to notice. Also, while true that Winters ignored Dike in disgust when he came back, he didn't specifically call out Speirs to take over like in the show. In reality, Speirs was simply the first Lieutenant that he saw so he ordered him in there. Dike's portrayal as a coward in general is at least up for debate. In fact, he was decorated twice for bravery during the war, first in Hollandnote before his assignment to Easy Company for organizing the defense of a road junction, and later in Bastognenote about 10 days before the attack on Foy and around the time of the infamous "I'm gonna go for help" scene for personally rescuing 3 wounded men while under heavy fire. In real life, Webster did not actually go on the eponymous mission in "The Last Patrol", but instead remained behind and manned a machine gun, much like Liebgott is depicted doing. Additionally, the patrol was led not by Sergeant Martin, but by another NCO named Ken Mercier. As the episode was primarily from Webster's point of view and as Mercier had not previously been introduced as a character, these changes were likely made to simplify things for the audience. One cadence Winters leads the men in singing during a run up Currahee in the titular episode includes the words, "We're airborne infantry!" These particular lyrics date from well after World War II, as at the time, "airborne" could refer to either parachute or glider troops, who while part of the same division were notably distinct from one another.note Unlike paratroopers, glider infantry were typically not volunteers and were not authorized special insignia - nevermind extra pay - until very late in the war. Consequently, any self-respecting paratrooper of the era would have referred to themselves as "parachute infantry." The mistake was likely because aside from the survivors of Easy Company themselves, the series' military advisors (i.e.: Dale Dye et al) were veterans of Vietnam and later conflicts. The book itself contains several major examples, a lot of which the TV series actually prunes; Ambrose refers to every German tank as a TigerIn factTigers were quite rare during the Normandy campaign (5.3% of all German armor committed) and Commonwealth forces faced most of the ones that were there., he says the 101st had 5000 men on D-DayIn factRecords show it had less than half that number., he frequently gets various technical details wrong, such as gun caliber, every German unit is described as "crack" or "elite"In factGerman records show Easy Company fought mainly regular Wehrmacht forces., both he and Winters criticize Major-General Taylor (the 101st's commander) for being "on holiday" during the Ardennes assaultIn factHe was on Christmas leave — something he had in common with Eisenhower — and was also attending various Pentagon conferences on how to improve the US Airborne divisions., he claims Easy Company was dropped by inexperienced pilots who had never flown at night and who did not have experience dropping paratroopers and who took evasive action to save themselvesIn factThe troop carriers were all proficient in dropping paratroopers and night flying. No pilot has less than 450 hours. Airborne complaints about the rough drop likely have more to do with the fact that the wind at the DZs was 20-30 knots (the present day safe limit is 13 knots). Incidentally, the complaints mostly came from the 101st; the 82nd, who had jumped before, actually commended the pilots. and he misidentifies the British colonel rescued by Easy as "O. Dobey"In factHis name was David Dobie. The last scene of the final episode provides a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue for the surviving Toccoa men as they play a baseball game, before it is interrupted for them to receive the news that Japan has surrendered and the war is now over. Pretty much all of these men would have been either home or on their way there by the time Japan surrendered, however; all but one of the survivors of the original company was discharged by July 1945, with the sole exception being Private Webster, who faced numerous issues with getting his points tally approved. This is for pure Rule of Drama, however.
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Band of Brothers / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
Band of Brothers / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: Winters, famously. Everyone is shocked when he accepts an offered bottle on D-Day and takes a swig, grimaces, and wryly comments there's a first time for everything. Fun fact is that Nixon and Welsh, his two best friends in the company, are also the most notorious drunkards.
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Band of Brothers / int_56c55ed8	type	I Am Not Left-Handed
Band of Brothers / int_56c55ed8	comment	I Am Not Left-Handed: This trope appears in such perfect form it almost looks like it was the Trope Namer. In the 4th episode ("Replacements"), Buck Compton plays darts against one of the new guys, Heffron, and loses saying, "It's a good thing we weren't gambling." Heffron suggests they bet on the next game and Buck "reluctantly" agrees. Before Buck takes his shot, Luz asks him why he isn't using his right hand. Heffron realizes he's been conned right before Buck throws the dart and wins.
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Band of Brothers / int_57c004fc	type	Threat Backfire
Band of Brothers / int_57c004fc	comment	Threat Backfire: And how. To keep him in line, Captain Sobel arranges some obviously frivolous charges against Winters, and tells him he can either lose his weekend pass, which he never uses anyway, or face court-martial. Winters requests trial by court-martial, which winds up revealing Sobel's pettiness to the higher ups and gets Sobel Kicked Upstairs to non-combat training duties.
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Band of Brothers / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Band of Brothers / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Second Lieutenant George C. Rice of the 10th Armored Division, played by Jimmy Fallon in a cameo at the end of the episode "Crossroads." Knowing that Bastogne was going to be surrounded, and knowing that the 101st was going to be really short on ammunition, Rice made nine separate trips in a jeep that was towing a trailer back and forth from a nearby supply depot to Bastogne in order to bring what ammo he could to the troops digging in against the German advance. He did this on his own volition. His last trip was technically made after the Germans had surrounded the town, and the only reason he didn't make a tenth trip was because he was specifically ordered by his CO to stand down. Rice was nominated for a Medal of Honor for his actions. Among the Allied units that fought alongside Easy Company were the following. In Normandy, they linked up with the 4th Infantry Division and the 2nd Armored Division, the latter of which provided tank support for many of their engagements. Additionally, many Easy Company paratroopers fought side-by-side with men from the 82nd Airborne Division in the early hours of D-Day, before they had located their own units. In Holland, Easy fought alongside the British XXX Corps, which provided tank support, and assisted in the rescue of men from the British 1st Airborne Division. In Bastogne, elements of the 10th Armored Division were surrounded with Easy, and the units were relievednote not rescued by units of the Third Army, including the 4th Armored Division. Through it all, Easy Company was one of nine within the 506th PIR, which itself was one of five regiments within the 101st Airborne Division.note the 501st, 502nd, and 506th PI Rs, and the 327th and 401st GI Rs Arguably, the men of all of these units are heroes of their own stories. The old German military policeman Janovec meets in the final episode, who has just survived his second world war, is most definitely this.
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Band of Brothers / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Band of Brothers / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: During most episodes, the men of Easy Company can be seen using Standard Issue military combat sign language.
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Band of Brothers / int_5e7c0ab7	type	Kleptomaniac Hero
Band of Brothers / int_5e7c0ab7	comment	Kleptomaniac Hero: This isn't a video game, but Captain Speirs certainly showed qualities of one in episode 9. Looting was actually very common among all soldiers in WWII. Even the straight-laced Winters gives in to the temptation once in a while. In "Points", pretty much all of Easy Company play this trope straight. Granted, they're "plundering" the abandoned Nazi Eagle's Nest, so it's quite more alluring. In "Carentan", Pvt. Perconte shows off an entire arm full of wristwatches looted from dead Germans. He even pauses during a march to grab a new one from a dead body. Alton More grabbed Hitler's personal photo albums. As souvenirs go, that's got to win the 1945 Gold.
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Band of Brothers / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Band of Brothers / int_5ff56a1f	comment	After Toye spends a couple of minutes griping about the weight of all the gear he has to jump into Normandy with, Perconte sarcastically asks him where he's going to keep the brass knuckles. Toye responds that he could use some of those.
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Band of Brothers / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Band of Brothers / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Played with when Sobel and Easy Company's paths cross again in England. Popeye reveals that Sobel not only let it slide that he'd gone AWOL, but also gave him a lift to Easy's camp. Soon averted when he goes back to his old ways and chews out Malarkey over the trifling matter of taking a motorcycle for a joyride, showing he's still the same kind of guy they remember.
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Band of Brothers / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Band of Brothers / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: "Replacements" introduces us to the wide-eyed Pvts. Hashey, Garcia, and Miller. The latter, played by a particularly young, baby-faced, innocence-exuding James McAvoy, dies the same episode. Bull contemplating over his corpse is staged in a manner that's supposed to remind the viewer of the thousands of inexperienced boys ground up in the war.
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Band of Brothers / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Band of Brothers / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: While on guard duty after the Germans had surrendered, Private Janovec and an old German soldier find themselves engaged in friendly conversation. The old German soldier notes he was also a veteran of World War I. Janovec just shakes his head in disbelief and congratulates him on surviving two world wars.
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Band of Brothers / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Band of Brothers / int_6375f746	comment	Shortly before the jump into occupied Holland, Malarkey visibly recoils in horror when he turns around to see Captain Sobel standing next to the motorcycle that he stole in the previous episode. Notably Muck and Penkala quickly make themselves scarce when they see him approach with a stern look on his face.
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Band of Brothers / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
Band of Brothers / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: Both Webster and Shifty come across this way. Despite everyone else in the company slowly becoming cynics, killers, and wiseacres, their personalities never really change. Webster remains a calm intellectual, while Shifty is still the same soft-spoken and polite country boy who left Virginia all those years ago.
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Band of Brothers / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Band of Brothers / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Sobel invokes this in the first episode, pointing out that "Malarkey" is slang for "bullshit". It's subtly nodded at in a later episode when Malarkey is complaining about food rations. The chef tells him that it's nothing that he won't eat, and Skip Muck quips "I won't eat malarkey." George Luz. His surname means "light" in Portuguese (pronounced looz), and he acts as the light of morale of the entire company.
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Band of Brothers / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Band of Brothers / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Bastogne", considered to be one of the best episodes in the series in its entirety, as Easy Company spends Christmas Day besieged by the Germans. By Christmas Eve there isn't a tremendous amount of food left but Col. Sink makes sure the men get served hot grub. On Christmas Day, two men of Easy are chatting in a foxhole when they hear the Germans, on the other side of no-man's-land, singing "Silent Night".
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Band of Brothers / int_6fbe3154	type	Shot in the Ass
Band of Brothers / int_6fbe3154	comment	Shot in the Ass: This happens to multiple characters, with Popeye Wynn starting the 'tradition' in "Day of Days". Buck Compton is shot in "Replacements," which is how he acquires his infamous "one bullet, four holes" wound. Perconte in "Breaking Point". The book lists several additional instances of this happening to Easy Company men. It actually makes a certain amount of sense, in that this is usually a survivable wound, but it would have seemed like an out of place Running Gag if they'd included any more.
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Band of Brothers / int_7089d02e	type	All Germans Are Nazis
Band of Brothers / int_7089d02e	comment	All Germans Are Nazis: Averted for the most part. Many of the Germans shown are portrayed as sympathetic characters, and the men of Easy Company gain lot of respect for the Germans and treat them nicely after the end of the war. However, the trope is subverted in that some characters believe that it's true. In "Why We Fight", Webster considers an entire German village to be just as guilty of the Holocaust as the Nazis, due to their willful ignorance of a nearby concentration camp. Other characters simply never get over their hatred for the Germans, especially after the discovery of the camp.
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Band of Brothers / int_73f7b5a5	type	Total Party Kill
Band of Brothers / int_73f7b5a5	comment	A member of Meehan's stick goes catatonic just before the jump. Meehan snaps him out of it... not that it made much difference in the end.
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Band of Brothers / int_754004a9	type	Hell on Earth
Band of Brothers / int_754004a9	comment	Perconte seems to see no problem with comparing the relatively tranquil woods outside Landsberg to the Hell on Earth that was Bastogne. He gets a Dope Slap from Sgt. Randleman for his trouble.
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Band of Brothers / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Band of Brothers / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: While Anyone Can Die applies to the series, in some cases the characters aren't killed in battle, but instead suffer gruesome injuries that force them to end their participation in the war, like Guarnere, Toye, Tipper, and Gordon. Or just get transferred to another unit like Sobel.
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Band of Brothers / int_766de4dc	type	To Absent Friends
Band of Brothers / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: In the closing scene of "The Breaking Point", Lipton narrates while Easy Company is resting in a church. As he starts listing off the casualties they suffered over the course of the Battle of the Bulge, the corresponding soldiers begin to fade away until the church looks far emptier than it did before. Averted, sadly enough, in the final episode. Winters provides a voiceover giving some details about what happened to the Easy Company men, but only for those whose actors were present at the baseball game. Others, like Malarkey, Guarnere, and others who left the unit due to either reassignment or injury were left out.
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Band of Brothers / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
Band of Brothers / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: An unfortunate German infantryman gets subjected to this in a particularly gruesome manner in "Carentan". After getting hit, he falls backward into a German tank reversing away from the battle, whose left tracks proceed to run him over... and he didn't benefit from Instant Death Bullet either. He was crushed feet first. Floyd Talbert is accidentally bayoneted by a fellow soldier whom he is attempting to wake up for sentry duty. Not only did Talbert startle the young paratrooper, Floyd happened to be wearing a German poncho at the time... Moose Heyliger gets shot by an overly jumpy sentry. Note that this accident puts Dike in charge, ultimately causing many unnecessary deaths.
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Band of Brothers / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Band of Brothers / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Though they are occasionally forced to leave their buddies dying, the men of Easy really would go back for their friends whenever possible, even at extreme personal cost to themselves. In Episode 6, Babe Heffron has to leave Private Julian, whom he's been sharing a foxhole with, to die on the German line. He nearly has a breakdown as a result, because he had promised to get his things back to his family and he was sure the Germans would strip him of everything. (Though it wasn't shown in the series, they did manage to retrieve Julian's body and things later, and it took the real Heffron years before he could contact his family because of the guilt he felt for leaving him to die.)
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Band of Brothers / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Band of Brothers / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Plenty of them, during and after the war.
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Band of Brothers / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
Band of Brothers / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: The title comes from the Saint Crispin's Day speech in Henry V: "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother". The real Carwood Lipton quotes this in one of the episodes. A speech given by a surrendering German general to his soldiers is reminiscent, mentioning "a bond, that exists only in combat, among brothers". In contrast to the Saint Crispin's Day speech, this is not a Rousing Speech but rather a post-defeat Final Speech. Even the American soldiers look on and feel compassion for people the day before they'd have killed without a second thought.
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Band of Brothers / int_7c6709e2	type	Crisis Point Hospital
Band of Brothers / int_7c6709e2	comment	Crisis Point Hospital: The 101st Airborne's field hospital in Bastogne is not only overflowing with patients, but there's a chronic lack of supplies: the Germans have completely surrounded the 101st and cut them off from land-based resupply, and the weather is too bad for Allied aircraft to drop supplies to them.
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Band of Brothers / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Band of Brothers / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Perconte gives one to O'Keefe when they are on machine gun duty.
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Band of Brothers / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Band of Brothers / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: After it becomes apparent that Sobel is a poor combat leader, Liebgott implies that he will frag him once Easy Company gets into combat. Thankfully, Sobel is reassigned before they go into battle and is replaced by competent officers.
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Band of Brothers / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Band of Brothers / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: "M-m-muh-m-MEEEEEEEEEEEEEDIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!!"
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Band of Brothers / int_80ed8406	type	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
Band of Brothers / int_80ed8406	comment	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Winters and Speirs. Inverted in the first episode with Sobel and Winters.
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Band of Brothers / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
Band of Brothers / int_820ac351	comment	TI Joseph Liebgott is portrayed as a practicing Jew. In fact, while ethnically Jewish, he was a Roman Catholic. note During the war, the rest of the company assumed he was Jewish due to his name and hatred of Nazis. The real Liebgott never corrected them because he found it amusing.
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Band of Brothers / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Band of Brothers / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: If a fictional war movie had an officer trying to link up with a unit on the other side of an enemy held town, by running THROUGH the enemy held town, right past armed enemy soldiers, it'd be criticized for being unrealistic. Even more so if the crazy bastard managed to run back without getting shot and had an artillery shell explode in front of him. Guarnere just happening to be wearing the wrong jacket that contained the news of his brother's death. In the commentary, he confirms it really did happen. Malarkey coming across an American-born German POW from the same state (Oregon) on D-Day. Even more unbelievable was that he worked across the street from Malarkey in Portland, though the show just has him say he's from Eugene (possibly because the coincidence was too unbelievable). Speirs' "When you talk to an officer, you say Sir" line (delivered after pistol-whipping the I Co. replacement, of course) seems straight out of a clichÃ© war film script, but it's a direct quote from the book. Apparently, in real life, he said something even more badass: "I've killed better men than you." Compton's grenade exploding as it hit the shoulder of a soldier was changed from real life — where it was the soldier's head. Presumably because that was too unbelievable.
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Band of Brothers / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Band of Brothers / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In Episode 5, Winters is assigned as Executive Officer under Lt. Colonel Strayer, and is seen with him in Episode 6. But in the latter half of Episode 7, Sink reminds him that as the battalion commander he is unable to relieve Lt. Dike himself. So when exactly was he promoted from XO to commander, and what happened to Strayer?
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Band of Brothers / int_8687f945	type	What Were You Thinking?
Band of Brothers / int_8687f945	comment	What Were You Thinking?: Webster yells this at a bunch of surrendering Germans when he sees that they still use horse-drawn wagons for transport.note For extra effect the paratroops are being driven along the autobahn, the Germans are marching the other way in the median. Malarkey gets yelled at by a half-worried, half-annoyed Guarnere for running out into enemy fire at Brecourt Manor hoping to find a Luger.
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Band of Brothers / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Band of Brothers / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The show and book both dramatize real events, but they strove to remain as accurate as possible. Only rarely did either make serious errors (most notably with the mis-attributed death of Albert Blithe, who not only didn't die of his wound in Normandy, but continued to serve with distinction through the Korean war and died without retiring, a Master Sergeant).
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Band of Brothers / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Band of Brothers / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Hoobler is rather bamboozled by a Cockney "German".
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Band of Brothers / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Band of Brothers / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Webster and the German baker's argument over the latter's supposed knowledge of the Concentration Camp in "Why We Fight." Eugene Roe and RenÃ©e switch between French and English throughout their interactions together in episode 6.
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Band of Brothers / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Band of Brothers / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: In the ninth episode, Janovec is reading a newspaper as the Company is being transported by truck. Luz asks him what the article is about. He replies that it says the reason why they [America] are fighting the war is because "The Germans are bad", which Luz finds very amusing. Later, they find one of the concentration camps and find out just how bad the Germans are.
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Band of Brothers / int_8be2ef8d	type	Grammar Correction Gag
Band of Brothers / int_8be2ef8d	comment	Grammar Correction Gag: When Winters is handed a written notice that he is to be court-martialed, the document contains a number of spelling mistakes. Nixon comments on this.
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Band of Brothers / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Infantry Division.
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Band of Brothers / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Band of Brothers / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Many of the members of Easy Company signed up because they figured that if they were part of an elite unit, they would be better trained than draftee infantry men and have a better chance of surviving. It never occurred to them that as elite soldiers, they would be the ones assigned to the most dangerous missions with a high risk of being wounded and killed. In retrospect, Tab really shouldn't have worn a German poncho in the dark and used his sidearm to wake Smith up.
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Band of Brothers / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Band of Brothers / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: It's about war, so there are wham moments in pretty much every episode, but episodes 6, 7 and 9 are particularly wrenching.
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Band of Brothers / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Band of Brothers / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: After Tipper is lacerated by flying glass after a mortar shell goes off right in front of him in a shop in Carentan, he manages to walk out of the explosion despite horrific cuts and smashed legs. Then he notices the extent of his injuries.
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Band of Brothers / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
Band of Brothers / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet: O'Keefe mutters that it's "awfully quiet" while a handful of soldiers are on patrol in the German woods. Moments later, they stumble across a Nazi concentration camp. This is Truth in Television; the fires and smell and other outputs of a concentration camp really did drive away the normal birds, insects, and local wildlife, thus making the area suspiciously quiet.
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Band of Brothers / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
Band of Brothers / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: The fog around Bastogne certainly sets an ominous, creepy mood as the men of Easy wait for the Germans to attack. But as the characters note In-Universe, it means no Allied air cover. (This happened in Real Life and was a major factor in the German success over the first ten days of the battle, until after Christmas when the weather cleared up.)
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Band of Brothers / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Band of Brothers / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Tragic example—it's what gets Pvt. Jackson killed in "The Last Patrol". He threw a grenade into a German observation post, then rushed in before it went off. His grenade then almost literally blew up in his face (it blew up, spewing shrapnel into his face—and his everything else, as well). He died of his wounds, screaming in agony, a little while later after the patrol got back to their side of the river.
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Band of Brothers / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Band of Brothers / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Plenty of them, and there are three whole episodes with no significant combat: Episode One — training in the US and England, and the conflict with Captain Sobel. Episode Nine — Germany is close to its final surrender, and the unit seems to mostly be behind the front lines. It's also when they find the concentration camps. Episode Ten — Set in Austria after VE Day, while everyone is wondering if they will have to go and fight against Japan.
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Band of Brothers / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Band of Brothers / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Watching the interviews of the real members of Easy Company at the beginning of each episode becomes more interesting after finding out who is who in the final episode. As the miniseries has numerous characters, watching the episodes back-to-back allows the viewer to pick up little details they may have missed that also double as Genius Bonuses for those who know about the history. For example, the first episode briefly shows Liebgott shaving another man's head into a mohawk — the real Liebgott was a barber by trade and helped shave some of the men's heads.
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Band of Brothers / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Band of Brothers / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Subverted in "Bastogne" when it looks like Eugene "Doc" Roe is going to keep Renee's hair smock, but he instead uses it as a bandage. Played straight when Roe gives Malarkey what's left of Muck's rosary after he is killed at Bastogne. Mentioned in the book when More is rooting through diddy bags of soldiers who were killed looking for money and snacks. He stops and has a breakdown when he comes across a pair of baby booties. The Luger that killed Hobbler is given to Malarkey as a gift for his kid brother.
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Band of Brothers / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Band of Brothers / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: After the German surrender, Allied soldiers actually have the opportunity to socialize with their former enemies. Many men of Easy Company found that they had a lot in common with the German soldiers, as they were all essentially young men fighting to defend their country. Some of them even admitted that had they met under different circumstances, they could have been great friends with the Germans they met. It's made most poignant in the final episode where the German general gives a speech to his men that could have been given by an American with no changes.
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Band of Brothers / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
Band of Brothers / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: In-Universe. Another reason why many of the men joined the paratroopers was because they were paid double the salary of the regular infantrymen.
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Band of Brothers / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
Band of Brothers / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Far less than in most war movies. Only later on, when the war begins to cool down do the men start asking "Why are we here?" Then they find the concentration camp. In Episode 6, Doc Roe spends quite a bit of time doing this silently.
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Band of Brothers / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Band of Brothers / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Each of the 10 episodes focuses on a specific character to some degree. If the episode has narration, it's by the character in the limelight from their Point of View. Episode 3: "Carentan" focuses on Pvt. Albert Blithe. Episode 4: "Replacements" follows Bull Randleman as Easy participates in Operation Market Garden and he gets trapped behind enemy lines after a firefight. Episode 5: "Crossroads" focuses on Captain Winters as he transitions from combat command to his new job as Battalion XO. Episode 6: "Bastogne" focuses on medic Eugene 'Doc' Roe. Episode 7: "The Breaking Point" follows and is narrated by 1Sgt. Carwood Lipton. Episode 8: "The Last Patrol" follows and is narrated by Pvt. David Webster as he rejoins Easy Company after a stay in the hospital. Episode 9: "Why We Fight" follows Captain Lewis Nixon. Although if the series can be said to have a main character, it's Winters, who gets Episodes 1, 2, 5, and 10 from his point of view.
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Band of Brothers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Band of Brothers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the end of "Crossroads", the camera shows Winters looking over to his men as they march into Bastogne. Then the camera points to Joe Toye, Bill Guarnere, Skip Muck, and Alex Penkala, who were either killed or severely wounded in the following two episodes.
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Band of Brothers / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Band of Brothers / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When Lt. Compton is newly assigned to Easy Company, he plays craps with his troops to get to know them. Lt. Winters rebukes him for gambling with the enlisted men, and at first, Compton doesnâ€™t understand why.
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Band of Brothers / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Band of Brothers / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Dick Winters. He leads a charge on an entire company of SS, who are so surprised by him they start running away, while he simply stands there firing away. Speirs. At least twice too: During the assault on the German battery early on (rushing outside of the trench and taking the last gun) and, more memorably, the run through Foy. Also, when Speirs replaces Dike and shoots down Dike's plan of attack, ending his orders with "The rest of you follow me." And then he runs through a German-occupied town, past retreating Germans, in order to link up with a friendly company. And the best part? 'He does it again to get back to Easy.''
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Band of Brothers / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Band of Brothers / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: During the attack on Foy, Dike suddenly orders Easy Company to halt mid-charge. In the open, while they are under extremely heavy fire. This gets many, many Easy men killed. He follows this up by ordering Foley's platoon to try to go around the city. Several men in the platoon are instantly cut down trying to carry out this insane order.
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Band of Brothers / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Band of Brothers / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Fortunately, virtually every officer in the series has this. Taken up to eleven with Winters and Speirs, and monumentally inverted with Dike.
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Band of Brothers / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Band of Brothers / int_a1d70162	comment	Hoobler's poor handling of a Luger is what gets him killed.note To be fair to Hoobler the Luger was a notoriously "unsafe" gun thanks to its rather unique action. Whilst he definitely shouldn't have had any kind of loaded weapon down his pants if it were, for example a Colt 1911 then it would likely have not randomly gone off due to the superior safety on that weapon.
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Band of Brothers / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Band of Brothers / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: During the Battle of Brecourt, a poor soul who makes the mistake of raising his head while in conversation with Lip gets dinged in the head for his efforts.
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Band of Brothers / int_a3cdf764	type	Drinking on Duty
Band of Brothers / int_a3cdf764	comment	Drinking on Duty: Nixon basically drinks his way from Normandy to Berchtesgaden. Speirs was notorious for executing a drunk NCO in his unit on D-Day. Inverted with Sergeant Grant, who was severely wounded by a drunken soldier while Grant was on guard duty.
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Band of Brothers / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Band of Brothers / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job:The real Winters was blond. Damian Lewis is a redhead. Ditto for Malarkey.
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Band of Brothers / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Band of Brothers / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The fourth episode shows the soldiers arriving in a Dutch village in the middle of a celebration. There's happy music playing and many are kissing the soldiers excitedly. Then all of a sudden you see a group of women being humiliated for sleeping with the Germans. Likewise the happy music can still be heard playing while this is going on.
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Band of Brothers / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Band of Brothers / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Despite getting a bunch of Easy men killed due to his cowardice, Norman Dike is never officially punished. Instead he was ultimately Kicked Upstairs to a general's aide.
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Band of Brothers / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Band of Brothers / int_a754fa9a	comment	An unfortunate German infantryman gets subjected to this in a particularly gruesome manner in "Carentan". After getting hit, he falls backward into a German tank reversing away from the battle, whose left tracks proceed to run him over... and he didn't benefit from Instant Death Bullet either. He was crushed feet first.
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Band of Brothers / int_a7c904c3	type	America Won World War II
Band of Brothers / int_a7c904c3	comment	America Won World War II: Averted — the British, French, and Russian contribution is made very clear.
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Band of Brothers / int_a839608e	type	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Band of Brothers / int_a839608e	comment	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: Sgt. Bull Randleman, who makes it out on his own, despite being shot and stabbed.
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Band of Brothers / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Band of Brothers / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: When Hoobler asks a British soldier a question in "Currahee" the answer is so thickly accented and slang-filled that it legitimately sounds like a foreign language to Hoobler. A member of Easy goes to pick up laundry. The British lady doing the laundry hands it to him and says "That'll be two bob and thruppence." He just goggles at her and then hands her a handful of money. She laughs and collects payment. A British officer says his men will signal with "a hand-held red torch", then turns to Nixon and says "that's a hand-held red flashlight."
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Band of Brothers / int_aa8fa208	type	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced
Band of Brothers / int_aa8fa208	comment	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: The paratroopers of Easy Company are superbly trained but D-Day is their first time in combat. By the time they are pulled from Normandy, they are toughened veterans but at a very bloody cost. This is then repeated on a smaller scale when the company gets replacements who are highly trained but have no combat experience.
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Band of Brothers / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Band of Brothers / int_aaece264	comment	A speech given by a surrendering German general to his soldiers is reminiscent, mentioning "a bond, that exists only in combat, among brothers". In contrast to the Saint Crispin's Day speech, this is not a Rousing Speech but rather a post-defeat Final Speech. Even the American soldiers look on and feel compassion for people the day before they'd have killed without a second thought.
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Band of Brothers / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
Band of Brothers / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile: The episode "Why We Fight" featured this exchange while the soldiers were patrolling a forest in Bavaria:
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Band of Brothers / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Band of Brothers / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: David Schwimmer really makes you feel Sobel's pain when he loses Easy Company.
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Band of Brothers / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Band of Brothers / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: To be expected, this being a war movie. Captain Sobel when Winters calls his bluff and requests a court-martial in place of non-judicial punishment. The C-47 pilot carrying Captain Meehan's stick. The port engine catches fire, and the extinguishers aren't working. They're all dead and he knows it, though he doesn't get long to reflect on it. Winters losing his "leg bag," leaving him virtually unarmed in enemy territory. He acts more annoyed than anything else. Shortly before the jump into occupied Holland, Malarkey visibly recoils in horror when he turns around to see Captain Sobel standing next to the motorcycle that he stole in the previous episode. Notably Muck and Penkala quickly make themselves scarce when they see him approach with a stern look on his face. The British Tank commander gets just a brief moment to realize several terrible things: they have been ambushed, they are facing far superior tanks they don't stand a chance against, and they can't escape. Bull, injured, rattled, separated from his squad, about to be overrun by a company of Germans, and a burning, shattered tank about to run him over. It's a safe bet these two words (or a variation thereof) was in his head at the time. Heffron and Spina when they literally fall into a German soldier's foxhole in Bastogne. Pretty much everyone in Second Platoon when they are given the mission in "The Last Patrol." They all think (correctly) this is a stupid, dangerous mission that really isn't necessary. The German baker in "Why We Fight" when Webster finally snaps and comes very close to blowing his head off. The concentration camp commandant when Liebgott reveals why they are there. Janovec gets an extremely brief one before his demise.
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Band of Brothers / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Band of Brothers / int_adfd3165	comment	He leads the company to believe they'll have an easy day at one point. He suggests the mess give them a hearty meal, which they indeed dig into happily. Then he immediately barges in and announces their day off is cancelled, and they are going to have to do strenuous physical training with a full belly, with the explicit threat that anyone who falls out will be dropped from the Airborne. It's a miserable affair and several of them vomit. There is absolutely no reason for this except for him getting a kick out of being cruel.
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Band of Brothers / int_ae9651d2	type	Double Don't Know
Band of Brothers / int_ae9651d2	comment	Double Don't Know: When E Co. advances into Foy and the overwhelmed Lieutenant Dike is being asked for his orders, he yells "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know!"
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Band of Brothers / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Band of Brothers / int_b0cd3349	comment	Episode 1 seems to split its POV between Sobel and Winters, which is a bit of Fridge Brilliance because they are unofficially at odds for command of Easy Company.
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Band of Brothers / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
Band of Brothers / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	As the miniseries has numerous characters, watching the episodes back-to-back allows the viewer to pick up little details they may have missed that also double as Genius Bonuses for those who know about the history. For example, the first episode briefly shows Liebgott shaving another man's head into a mohawk — the real Liebgott was a barber by trade and helped shave some of the men's heads.
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Band of Brothers / int_b3d5d61	type	Real-Person Cameo
Band of Brothers / int_b3d5d61	comment	Real-Person Cameo: The real Babe Heffron appears as a Dutch citizen in the town the 101st liberates (he is sitting at a table, waving a flag).
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Band of Brothers / int_b3f4bf22	type	Pants-Positive Safety
Band of Brothers / int_b3f4bf22	comment	Pants-Positive Safety: Averted, tragically, when Hoobler practices this trope, shoots himself in the leg, and rapidly bleeds to death.
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Band of Brothers / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
Band of Brothers / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men: D-Day, Market Garden, and Varsity. After all, they're paratroops.
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Band of Brothers / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Band of Brothers / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Each episode is topped and tailed by interviews with the survivors. After the final episode, the interviewees returned — this time with captions telling you who they were. Within the last episode there was also a Sandlot-like epilogue where the characters' later lives are narrated while they play baseball.
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Band of Brothers / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Band of Brothers / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Speirs. When Blithe is suffering from shell shock Speirs looks him in the eye and tells him, calmly but with creepy intensity, that Blithe is scared because he still has hope, and he has to accept that he is already dead. Later episodes have the men of Easy talking about how Speirs executed one of his own men for being drunk, and how Speirs executed a bunch of German prisoners... although nobody's completely sure that those things happened. During the attack on Foy, Speirs amazes the men of Easy when he makes contact with I Company, on the other side of the village, by running right through the Germans.
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Band of Brothers / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Band of Brothers / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Martin's reaction when the British tank commander tells him he can't shoot a Dutch house to expose a German tank due to an agreement the Brits made to the Dutch to avoid unnecessary property damage. He turns out to be literally Too Dumb to Live. Toye says this to himself after grenades explode at his feet twice in the same battle without harming him.
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Band of Brothers / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Band of Brothers / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Shifty Powers. The band made sure he got sent home as early as possible because he saved their asses a few times.
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Band of Brothers / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Band of Brothers / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Several of these show up. What Herbert Sobel turns out to be; under all his posturing and boasting, he is downright inept and prone to panic during field training exercises, and he can't read a map to save his life. Also, Norman Dike, who has gotten his rank mostly through nepotism. When Easy falls under attack from German artillery in the Bastogne woods, he hastily retreats from the field, claiming he is "getting help." When he later finds himself unable to retreat out of an attack, he shuts completely down from fear and stress. None of the higher-ups want to let the newly-arrived Lieutenant Jones lead the prisoner-snatching raid for fear he might be one of these. History says that Jones turned out to be anything but a Neidermeyer.
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Band of Brothers / int_bf17a64e	type	Germanic Efficiency
Band of Brothers / int_bf17a64e	comment	Germanic Efficiency: Particularly evident in "Replacements".
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Band of Brothers / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Band of Brothers / int_bf609406	comment	There is a variation where Webster, an airborne veteran who has been there since Toccoa, was treated somewhat like New Meat after he had missed Bastogne.
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Band of Brothers / int_c271fe08	type	Machiavelli Was Wrong
Band of Brothers / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: "Whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?" is presented by two different leaders. Winters clearly loves Easy Company, treats his men well, and as such the soldiers respect him and would do anything for him. Speirs develops a reputation for being such a badass that the soldiers in Easy fear him, but respect him because he gets the job done. Played with in that Speirs knows all about the chatter going on behind his back: Proved by Captain Sobel who is clearly not loved, but made himself more hated than feared, which Machiavelli warned against. Also note that Winters and Speirs were respected, which Machiavelli notes is the best possible state.
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Band of Brothers / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Band of Brothers / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: This series basically defines the trope — Both the company as a whole, and several nested groups within it. Malarkey, Muck, and Penkala. Guarnere and Toye. Bull and Johnny, and many other close-knit groups within Easy. This could cut both ways, either pushing men to excel to keep their buddies safe, or breaking men as they see their "family" slowly whittled down.
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Band of Brothers / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Band of Brothers / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Of the cruelest sort. In "Bastogne", Easy Company gets hit by heavy artillery fire and Muck and Penkala frantically yell for Luz to get into their foxhole while Luz slowly crawls over to them... their foxhole is then directly hit by a shell. Despite winning the lottery to be the first one to go home, Shifty wound up getting back to the US after everyone else because he was injured in a car accident on the way to the airport. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it. At the end of the first episode, Lipton is seen reminding the men before they board the airplanes to talk to Sgt. Evans to make sure they sign their insurance in case they get KIA. At the start of the second episode, guess whose plane gets shot down by the Germans. In a meta-example, "The Last Patrol" revolves around the resentment the other men feel towards Webster for sitting out the Battle of the Bulge in his hospital, viewing him as a shirker trying to avoid duty. As it turned out, Webster would be the last of the original Toccoa men to be discharged and sent home from Europe after the war finished.
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Band of Brothers / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Band of Brothers / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Webster is the most obvious case, being a Harvard student of literature. He's also shown keeping journals, which were a big help with creating the original book in real life. Perconte to a lesser extent. He's shown trying to read while on watch, and gets annoyed at O'Keefe for distracting him.
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Band of Brothers / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
Band of Brothers / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Both David Webster and Joseph Liebgott are fluent in German, making them perfect translators for the men of Easy Company. Strangely enough in the eighth episode, Webster insists on shouting in English at a German baker. In the next episode, he speaks it fluently again, perhaps flying off the handle at the townspeople for claiming no knowledge of the nearby concentration camp. Behind the scenes, Webster speaking in English was that the writers felt the scene would have been much less effective with subtitles. In the scene he seems to understand what the man is saying, he just replies to him in English. The shopkeep in question, also, seems to have no trouble understanding what Webster is saying to him.
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Band of Brothers / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Band of Brothers / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Why We Fight", in which they discover the concentration camp, takes its title from Frank Capra's memorable series of propaganda films made during the war.
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Band of Brothers / int_c91dcba1	type	Perma-Stubble
Band of Brothers / int_c91dcba1	comment	Perma-Stubble: Justified. Sometimes it's hard to shave when you're fighting Nazis. Everyone has it while they're in Bastogne, except for Winters, who shaves every day despite the freezing cold and occasional wandering German.
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Band of Brothers / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Band of Brothers / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Dick Winters, to a T.
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Band of Brothers / int_cb5a0181	type	Where's the Kaboom?
Band of Brothers / int_cb5a0181	comment	Where's the Kaboom?: In episode 7, Luz and Lipton have an artillery round land in their foxhole and... smoke a little bit. The two are, understandably, quite shaken up. Episode 8 has a raid that leaves behind a time bomb in a building used as a German observation post. Winters checks his watch shortly before the building explodes, as if checking that the Kaboom isn't behind schedule.
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Band of Brothers / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Band of Brothers / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Nixon makes it through the whole war without ever firing his weapon in combat. He was credited with three jump-stars (received for combat jumps in the European Theater). Doc Roe qualifies as well.
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Band of Brothers / int_cc82b744	type	It Won't Turn Off
Band of Brothers / int_cc82b744	comment	It Won't Turn Off: After a Sherman tank is hit by a shell, Bull Randleman has to keep crawling along a ditch because the tank keeps trundling towards him, despite being in flames and likely to explode any moment. He can't climb out of the ditch or double back either, as German troops are advancing towards him too.
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Band of Brothers / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Band of Brothers / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: A number of episodes feature lovely armored vehicles in combat. Of particular note are Easy's encounter with a German mechanized unit in "Carentan" and their battle in Nuenen, Holland in "Replacements," both of which showcase a nice variety of the Wehrmacht's arsenal.
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Band of Brothers / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Band of Brothers / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: There are very few people of color in the series, the main exception being a few Hispanic/Latin soldiers. This is Justified, however; at the time, the American armed forces were racially segregated (Hispanics were at the time considered white), and Easy Company served in the European Theatre (where all the locals were white too).
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Band of Brothers / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Band of Brothers / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Not totally, but many of the battles have everything but red heavily desaturated (with the desperate Battle of Bastogne being practically monochrome, due to all the snow), with the more peaceful scenes away from the fighting being in beautiful natural colors.
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Band of Brothers / int_d29e7760	type	Southern-Fried Private
Band of Brothers / int_d29e7760	comment	Southern-Fried Private: Bull Randleman with his "folksy wisdom".
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Band of Brothers / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Band of Brothers / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Nixon finally runs out of his beloved Vat 69 during the occupation. He sees a German Liquor Store, closed and locked up for the night. Nixon smashes the window and steals a few bottles as the store owner (living above the store) shouts down at him. The US military police arrive just as he's leaving, and they casually greet him as he walks off with his loot. Doc Roe to Winters and Welsh, after they can't say how much morphine they gave Heyliger and did not put the syrettes on his shirt (See Worst Aid example below).
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Band of Brothers / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Band of Brothers / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: During Speirs' epic run through Foy, the Germans initially do not fire on him and are just as confused as everybody else. Lipton muses that the absurdity of Speirs' run was what made it successful. In the midst of a heated firefight, Malarkey runs out in the middle of the shooting and starts going over a dead German. The Germans ceased fire, thinking that he was a medic treating their man. They only resumed fire when it became clear that Malarkey was souvenir hunting on the dead man.
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Band of Brothers / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Band of Brothers / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: A key reason why many men joined the Airborne, along with the promise of more pay.
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Band of Brothers / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Band of Brothers / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Sobel in episode 1, Dike in episode 7, and Jones in episode 8. Though Jones's case wasn't due to incompetence, but rather the need for a "post-War" officer corps (most of the combat leadership would be discharged upon completion of the war.) The top leadership didn't want him killed before he could fill the upcoming void. Sobel knows exactly what's happening, although Col. Sink is as gentle as he can be when "promoting" Sobel to command of a parachute school for noncombatants. With a little fridge brilliance Sobelâ€™s case makes perfect sense. As despicable as he is, he did an excellent job of getting the men ready to jump. He just had no clue what he was doing once they were on the ground. Col. Sink is savvy enough to realize he can use him to train noncombatants to jump. Most of them will likely outrank Sobel and even though heâ€™ll be the commander during the training, heâ€™ll have to think twice about how he treats them since they will outrank him once theyâ€™ve jumped.
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Band of Brothers / int_d861e4f8	type	War Crime Subverts Heroism
Band of Brothers / int_d861e4f8	comment	War Crime Subverts Heroism: In episode 2, a group of captured Nazi soldiers — including a volunteer American who was born to German parents and raised 100 miles from Malarkey — are executed after being given cigarettes. In episode 9, a sign of how jaded the men of Easy Company have become after all they've been through is when they drive past a unit of French soldiers cold-bloodedly executing a couple of German prisoners... and not one of them except a fresh-faced "replacement" bats an eye at it.
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Band of Brothers / int_d959d421	type	Rotating Protagonist
Band of Brothers / int_d959d421	comment	Rotating Protagonist: Each episode has its own POV character with some being less clear than others: Dick Winters (Episodes 2, 5, and 10) Herbert Sobel (Episode 1) Albert Blithe (Episode 3) Denver "Bull" Randleman (Episode 4) Eugene "Doc" Roe (Episode 6) Carwood Lipton (Episode 7) David Webster (Episode 8) Lewis Nixon (Episode 9) Episode 1 seems to split its POV between Sobel and Winters, which is a bit of Fridge Brilliance because they are unofficially at odds for command of Easy Company.
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Band of Brothers / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Band of Brothers / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: The Sherman tanks in episode 3. Easy was under heavy attack and Dog and Fox companies had retreated, leaving Easy with no cover on its flanks. Nevertheless, they held their ground until the 2nd Armored arrived. Played with in episode 6 where the point is made that Easy Company and the 101st Airborne have never agreed with the story that they needed to be "rescued", as Patton said, by the Third Army.
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Band of Brothers / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
Band of Brothers / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: Lots of them. Many of the original Toccoa men held leadership positions as senior NCOs or Officers by the end of the war. Dick Winters jumped into Normandy as a 1st Lieutenant in June of 1944. He was promoted to Captain in July '44, and to Major in March of '45. First Sergeant Carwood Lipton, to Second Lieutenant. It's pointed out that it was fortunate he didn't die on his mission the previous night, as he was discharged from the enlisted ranks that day and only commissioned as an officer the following day: had he died, he would have died as a civilian (not reallynote He would have died as a First Sergeant). This was following his promotion to First Sergeant after the previous 1st Sgt., James Diel, was himself battlefield commissioned to 2nd Lt. and transferred out of the unit. Donald Malarkey reached the rank of Technical Sergeant (now known as Sergeant 1st Class) by the end of the war after jumping into Normandy as a Private.
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Band of Brothers / int_dce640ce	type	Real-Person Epilogue
Band of Brothers / int_dce640ce	comment	Real-Person Epilogue: Each episode begins and ends with an interview (or other footage) of the actual soldiers portrayed.
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Band of Brothers / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
Band of Brothers / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: In "Crossroads", Moose is accidentally shot by a friendly sentry. Winters and Welsh provide first aid until the medic arrives. Doc Roe promptly informs them that they gave Moose a morphine overdose, which is far more likely to kill him than the bullets were, and chews them out for being that stupid.
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Band of Brothers / int_df3b7b8	type	Delayed Explosion
Band of Brothers / int_df3b7b8	comment	Delayed Explosion: In Haguenau, Webster and a group of men cross a river in the middle of the night to capture a group of German soldiers for intelligence, and Webster puts explosive charges in the outpost-house where the Germans were. The charges only explode the day later in the afternoon.
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Band of Brothers / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Band of Brothers / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: 1st Sergeant Carwood Lipton, especially during the later stages of the Battle of the Bulge in "The Breaking Point".
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Band of Brothers / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Band of Brothers / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Several times in the series. A member of Meehan's stick goes catatonic just before the jump. Meehan snaps him out of it... not that it made much difference in the end. This is Blithe's default expression in "Carentan". Buck is frozen in one virtually the whole time he's at the Aid Station in "The Breaking Point." Even before this, the trope is lampshaded by Babe in regards to Buck, who appears on edge after a previous wound. Malarkey starts to fade in and out of these at the end. They are frequent by "The Last Patrol," which Webster takes notice of. Roe does this more than once in episode 6. Subverted with Speirs who has a permanent creepy stare, but is entirely in command of his faculties.
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Band of Brothers / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Band of Brothers / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Sobel is given one. Whilst he was certainly a harsh taskmaster, he was probably no worse than many other US officers of the time, and, indeed, veterans of Easy Company acknowledge that his training was crucial to the company's later success. Norman Dike is portrayed as a complete coward, resulting in several men from E-company being killed or wounded during the attack on Foy. In real life, while probably not the most skilled leader and certainly not popular among the men, Dike was no coward. He received two medals for valor in combat, one of which for rescuing wounded men under fire, and the real reason why he froze up outside Foy was that he had been shot and was in shock.
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Band of Brothers / int_e1ba59f3	type	Voice Changeling
Band of Brothers / int_e1ba59f3	comment	Voice Changeling: Luz. It's his specialty.
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Band of Brothers / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
Band of Brothers / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: Somewhat reasonable, in that the few men who manage to survive long enough to become experienced are often pushed into leadership roles. The trope stops after Major Winters though. That may simply be because it's impossible to get more badass than Major Dick Winters. Used by Lt. Speirs, who is said to have shot his own man on D-Day for being drunk in combat. He never says whether he did or not, because it's a surefire way to get people's fear, if not respect, and for them to listen to him. Speirs DID shoot one of his own men for being drunk, but more for refusing to carry out a lawful order. The big thing they talked about was Speirs ostensibly passing out cigarettes to a number of German POW's (anywhere from 8-20, depending on who you ask), then shooting them. It's also believed that Speirs did actually shoot the German POW's, though no one knows exactly how many he did kill. The men were all told by their superior officers not to bother taking any prisoners on D-Day, an order Speirs probably would follow.
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Band of Brothers / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Band of Brothers / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Renee the nurse in episode 6. There actually was a Belgian nurse named RenÃ©e Lemaire who was working at the aid station in Bastogne during the battle, and died in the German bombing of December 24, 1944, as depicted in the episode. However, there's no indication the historical RenÃ©e and Doc Roe were ever acquainted. Word of God is that she's a tribute to all the civilians that helped in the war effort.
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Band of Brothers / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Band of Brothers / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The homicidal I Company replacement from Episode 10 is treated as such in-universe. After drunkenly murdering two Germans and a British officer for not giving him gas, he then shoots Sgt. Grant in the head for trying to apprehend him. Grant would somehow survive, but this did nothing to stop the other members of E Company (including Speirs) from collectively beating the replacement within an inch of his life after he had been brought into custody.note The book further reveals that after being thrown into the stockade, his guard proceeded to brutally beat him further upon hearing about his crimes.
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Band of Brothers / int_e640b487	type	Infodump
Band of Brothers / int_e640b487	comment	Infodump: Toye informs the viewer of the gear a paratrooper carries by bitching about the quantity and weight of what he has to carry. In a Brick Joke moment, on D-Day he punches a German soldier — and he's wearing brass knuckles.
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Band of Brothers / int_e71d66e	type	Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!
Band of Brothers / int_e71d66e	comment	Floyd Talbert is accidentally bayoneted by a fellow soldier whom he is attempting to wake up for sentry duty. Not only did Talbert startle the young paratrooper, Floyd happened to be wearing a German poncho at the time...
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Band of Brothers / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Band of Brothers / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Lipton comes hair-raisingly close to getting his groin mangled by shrapnel.
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Band of Brothers / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Band of Brothers / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Several. Sobel's command style isn't simply strict, it's often downright petty and sadistic. Dike is an unpleasant, obnoxious cad in addition to his other fine qualities. He blames everyone, he is standoffish to his men, he's lazy, neglects his duties (he delegates so he doesn't have to do anything), and his attempts at fostering camaraderie with his men are blatantly phony. On the enlisted side, Cobb. He's coarse, mean, and short tempered. He picks on Private Miller for no real reason, and is downright insubordinate many times in "The Last Patrol." He disappears from the series after this episode, because he was dishonorably discharged for drunkenly assaulting another soldier. Perconte deliberately tries to hurt O'Keefe by giving him the scathing "Reason You Suck" Speech below. It works. O'Keefe's crime? Being enthusiastic. Averted at the last moment when Perconte's expression makes it perfectly clear that he knows he went too far. Perconte does realize (and admits) it's not O'Keefe he's upset about, it's the war in general.
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Band of Brothers / int_ecf76ce6	type	Decapitated Army
Band of Brothers / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: Averted during the Normandy invasion. The plane carrying the commander of Easy Company is shot down but despite the chaotic conditions of the airdrop the paratroopers quickly start assembling into makeshift units and soon after Lt. Winters assumes command of the company. The situation is inverted during the battle of Foy. Winters has been promoted to look out for the entire battalion and not just Easy, and Lt. Dike, the new commander of Easy Company, is incompetent and paralyzed with indecision. This results in the attack bogging down and the soldiers are about to rout when Dike is dismissed from command. Winter's CO has to stop him briefly from personally taking command. With Speirs now in charge, the soldiers rally and take the town.
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Band of Brothers / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Band of Brothers / int_ed05cfee	comment	O'Keefe, the overtly eager NaÃ¯ve Newcomer when he sees the concentration camp.
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Band of Brothers / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Band of Brothers / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: During D-Day, the plane carrying Easy Company's CO and HQ section is shot down and destroyed, leaving Winters as the highest ranking officer and de facto leader of Easy. Easy's replacement CO is then subsequently shot by friendly fire and is shipped back to the States, leaving Winters the acting CO yet again until he is officially promoted to the position. During the invasion of Foy, Lieutenant Dike freezes in place, endangering the entire company. Colonel Sink specifically reminds Winters that as he is the commander of the entire battalion, and not just Easy Company, he cannot rush into battle and assume command in place of Dike. Winters immediately turns to Lieutenant Speirs and orders him to relieve Dike and lead the assault into Foy. Speirs takes about a second and a half to come up with a workable battle-plan and successfully takes the town.
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Band of Brothers / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Band of Brothers / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Winters is having coffee in a Parisian cafe when he drops a coin. He reaches down—but the hand that picks a coin up from the floor is the hand of a teenaged French boy, on the Metro, with Winters sitting a few rows ahead. This introduces a sort of PTSD sequence where things Winters sees on the Metro car are matched with horrors he's seen at the front.
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Band of Brothers / int_ed503b22	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
Band of Brothers / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: EVERY Sergeant in Easy Company risks his life by resigning their commission at the same time in protest of Sobel being the C.O.note It's implied by Sink's handling of the situation that he lets them off because he already knew about the issues surrounding Sobel, and this was the last straw. Some of the men even talk about fragging him. Note while this may be more along the lines that they feel following his command will get them all killed, there are certainly more motives.
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Band of Brothers / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Band of Brothers / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: ...for every act of badassery, there are about a dozen more showing how heartbreaking, senseless, and destructive war is.
Band of Brothers / int_f1d6144a	featureApplicability	1.0
Band of Brothers / int_f1d6144a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Band of Brothers / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: For all of Lieutenant Dikeâ€™s bumbling, he does rightly point out that itâ€™s a bad idea for Medics Roe and Spina to be in the same foxhole when an artillery barrage could hit them at any time, leaving the company without a medic.
Band of Brothers / int_f360fc33	featureApplicability	1.0
Band of Brothers / int_f360fc33	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Band of Brothers / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Overall, at least compared to the very often extremely dark and heartbreaking tone of the rest of the series, the series ends on a happy note with the (surviving) men of Easy Company happily playing baseball before being called over by Major Winters and being told of the surrender of the Japanese, meaning they will all be able to finally go home.
Band of Brothers / int_f64a9cf7	featureApplicability	1.0
Band of Brothers / int_f64a9cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_f7257495	type	Hustling the Mark
Band of Brothers / int_f7257495	comment	Hustling the Mark: The game of darts Buck Compton and some other veterans play against the newly arrived replacements in Episode 4, with Buck pulling the I Am Not Left-Handed trick (see below) as soon as the newbies agree to a bet.
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Band of Brothers / int_f7257495	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_f863bb6d	type	Battle Trophy
Band of Brothers / int_f863bb6d	comment	The Luger that killed Hobbler is given to Malarkey as a gift for his kid brother.
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Band of Brothers / int_f863bb6d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Band of Brothers / int_f9f2c33	comment	The book lists several additional instances of this happening to Easy Company men. It actually makes a certain amount of sense, in that this is usually a survivable wound, but it would have seemed like an out of place Running Gag if they'd included any more.
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Band of Brothers / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Band of Brothers / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Sergeant Lipton, as he most often is the one looking out for Easy Company. This is lampshaded by Captain Speirs. Sergeant Randleman makes it a priority to get the rookies up to speed and share his experience.
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Band of Brothers / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Band of Brothers / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: After Toye spends a couple of minutes griping about the weight of all the gear he has to jump into Normandy with, Perconte sarcastically asks him where he's going to keep the brass knuckles. Toye responds that he could use some of those. In Bastogne, Buck mischievously asks Dike to comment on a tactical conversation, to illustrate he's neither paying attention nor is he at all involved in actually running anything. Dike totally misses this and just agrees and walks off, both missing the rebuke and proving the point. Perconte seems to see no problem with comparing the relatively tranquil woods outside Landsberg to the Hell on Earth that was Bastogne. He gets a Dope Slap from Sgt. Randleman for his trouble.
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Band of Brothers / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Band of Brothers / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: A staple of war, it is rife in the series. Smokey even writes a humorous poem about Sergeant Talbert getting bayonetted!
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Band of Brothers / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Band of Brothers / int_fd69ea80	comment	Minor Major Character: Sergeants Floyd Talbert and Charles Grant both come across this way. Made worse by the fact they look very similar to each other and given precious little characterization, despite being featured in every episode. A few of the replacement officers (Shames, Brewer, Foley, etc.) are mostly background characters with a few token lines.
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Band of Brothers / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Band of Brothers / int_fe0330fb	comment	In a Brick Joke moment, on D-Day he punches a German soldier — and he's wearing brass knuckles.
Band of Brothers / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Band of Brothers / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Band of Brothers / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Band of Brothers / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Father John Maloney, the regimental chaplain, is shown administering last rites to dying soldiers in the middle of a firefight, walking about with no cover while bullets hit the ground around his feet and artillery exploding in the area. This would make him a Badass Pacifist as well.
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Band of Brothers / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Band of Brothers / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In "Replacements," the company passes one of the Dutch women (holding a baby) who has been exiled for "sleeping with the Germans". Everyone gives her looks of pity and sympathy. One of the men even gives her a K-Ration as they pass. It quickly turns into Fridge Horror when you realizethat that woman is what we would call today a RAPE SURVIVOR.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Band of Brothers
TiredAndWired	seeAlso	Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	A Truce While We Gawk / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Ability over Appearance / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Actor/Role Confusion / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Actor-Shared Background / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Affectionate Nickname / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Age Cut / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	All Germans Are Nazis / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	America Won World War II / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Attack Its Weak Point / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Awesome, Dear Boy / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Badass Crew / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Badass Preacher / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Band of Brothers / int_761813a6
BandofBrothers	seeAlso	Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Bathos / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Battle Trophy / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Bayonet Ya / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Beard of Sorrow / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Better on DVD / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Big Badass Battle Sequence / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Bilingual Bonus / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Bilingual Dialogue / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Bomb Whistle / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Boom, Headshot! / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Break the Badass / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	…But I Play One on TV / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Call to Agriculture / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Camp Follower / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Can't Believe I Said That / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Car Fu / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Cast Full of Pretty Boys / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Cigar Chomper / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Cigarette of Anxiety / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Coitus Uninterruptus / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Colonel Kilgore / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Comically Inept Healing / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Communications Officer / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Concealment Equals Cover / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Confound Them with Kindness / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Conservation of Competence / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Court-martialed / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Crisis Point Hospital / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Crowd Song / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Cultured Warrior / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Cunning Linguist / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Custom Uniform / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Darkhorse Casting / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Dead Hat Shot / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Deadly Distant Finale / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	"Dear John" Letter / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Decapitated Army / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Delegation Relay / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Deliberately Monochrome / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Desk Jockey / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Did I Mention It's Christmas? / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Dissimile / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Do Not Call Me "Paul" / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Docudrama / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Double Don't Know / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Drill Sergeant Nasty / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Drinking on Duty / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Dyeing for Your Art / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Elites Are More Glamorous / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Embarrassing Nickname / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Ensign Newbie / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Epic Tank-on-Tank Action / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Every Scar Has a Story / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Experience Entitlement / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Famed In-Story / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Fighter-Launching Sequence / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	First-Episode Spoiler / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Flashback Effects / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Flower from the Mountaintop / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Freak Out / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Freakier Than Fiction / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Free Wheel / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Friendship on the Set / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Go Out with a Smile / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Got Volunteered / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Grammar Correction Gag / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Grenade Hot Potato / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Hat Damage / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Hero Insurance / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Historical Hero Upgrade / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Hollywood Tactics / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Hope Is Scary / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	I Am Not Left-Handed / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	I Know Madden Kombat / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	I Was Just Joking / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Improbable Age / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Incoming Ham / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Infodump / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Instant Soprano / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Invulnerable Horses / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	It Has Been an Honor / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	It's Raining Men / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Jar Potty / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Leave No Survivors / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Les Collaborateurs / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Line in the Sand / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Love Is a Weakness / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Machiavelli Was Wrong / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Majorly Awesome / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Method Acting / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Mid-Season Twist / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Mildly Military / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Military Moonshiner / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Military Salute / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Misplaced Accent / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Mission Briefing / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	More Popular Replacement / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	New Meat / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Non-Action Guy / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Not a Morning Person / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Obligatory War Crime Scene / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Old Soldier / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	One Last Smoke / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Outranking Your Job / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	POW Camp / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Pants-Positive Safety / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Parachute in a Tree / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Pistol-Whipping / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Plucky Comic Relief / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Plunder / int_761813a6
Polaris	seeAlso	Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Pop-Cultured Badass / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Psycho Party Member / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Read the Map Upside Down / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Real Men Love Jesus / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Real-Person Cameo / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Real-Person Epilogue / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Real-Person Fic / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Red Filter of Doom / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Returning War Vet / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Reveal Shot / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Rotating Protagonist / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Sad Clown / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Separated by a Common Language / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Slashed Throat / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Smug Straight Edge / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Sociopathic Soldier / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Soldiers at the Rear / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Sound Off / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Southern-Fried Private / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Still Wearing the Old Colors / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Storming the Beaches / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Survival Mantra / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Sworn Brothers / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Symbolic Cast Fadeout / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Tanks, but No Tanks / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Tastes Like Friendship / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Team Mom / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Team Title / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Cavalry / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Chain of Command / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Ditherer / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Dreaded Toilet Duty / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Engineer / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Fellowship Has Ended / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Medic / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Mutiny / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Oner / int_761813a6
ThePacific	seeAlso	Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Teaser / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	The Teetotaler / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Thousand-Yard Stare / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Threat Backfire / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	To Absent Friends / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	True Companions / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Unconventional Learning Experience / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Unfriendly Fire / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Urban Warfare / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Vehicle Vanish / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Victory Is Boring / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	War Crime Subverts Heroism / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	War Is Hell / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Water Wake-up / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	We Have to Get the Bullet Out! / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	What Were You Thinking? / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Where's the Kaboom? / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	While Rome Burns / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	White Anglo-Saxon Protestant / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	White Stallion / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Winter Warfare / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Workplace-Acquired Abilities / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Worst Aid / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	You Always Hear the Bullet / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	You Have to Have Jews / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	You Make Me Sic / int_761813a6
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_761813a6
BandofBrothers	sameAs	Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Death Is Dramatic / int_761813a6

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