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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The French Foreign Legion is one of the most mythologized military units in the world. Its most famous writer was P.C. Wren, but it has had other writers and it has been occasionally spoofed, notably by Charles Schulz. It is legendary as a place where people with a Mysterious Past go to disappear, and of course bereaved lovers, political refugees, and various rogues and scoundrels and the like can always be found there. The actual Legion existed to provide a body of cannon fodder who can fight in dangerous and distant lands without risking the lives of (many) actual French citizens, though in recent years it took the role of a far smaller, elite infantry unit, completed with a light armor regiment. French citizenship is often the reward for a Legionnaire who has completed five years of service. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The stereotypical Legionnaire in fiction is represented as a member of a North African campaign from approximately 1900 to 1950. They are always depicted wearing white khepis while standing guard at lonely outposts in the Sahara. In real life, the Legion operates in a variety of environments and conflicts (such as French Indochina) and wears camouflage as needed. One of their real-life current deployments is to serve as the security detail for the European Space Agency's space launch facility at Kourou, French Guyana (the European Union's counterpart to Cape Canaveral). For more details about La Grande Muette, go to Gauls With Grenades, or Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys. See also Eagle Squadron, Army of Thieves and Whores and Trading Bars for Stripes. |
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Dragon Age: The Dwarven "Legion of the Dead" is exactly this. Dwarves, or even nondwarves, from any walk of life and any circumstance may join, including the worst criminals and Casteless, and upon joining a funeral is held for the new recruit and all their past sins are absolved. They are considered to "owe" the Dwarven people a death and usually set about earning it by going deep into the Deep Roads to fight the worst of the Darkspawn infestation there. In the Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening expansion pack, there's a Legion of the Dead member whom you can recruit as a follower, ironically by saving her life after the rest of her squad gets wiped out. Grey Wardens are a milder version of this trope. They take in anyone, from the lowest commoner to the highest king, who has skills and desire to fight darkspawn. If a criminal joins their ranks, s/he will be pardoned, which is used a few times in the actual game, most notably during the prologue. However, not only are Grey Wardens expected to spend the rest of their lives fighting darkspawn, but since they take in the taint their days are numbered anyway. Many Grey Wardens who feel their death approaching go into the Deep Roads, and often fight alongside the Legion. |
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The Desert Song uses the French Foreign Legion's occupation of Morocco in the 1920s as a backdrop. | |
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Area 88 revolves around a unit that is essentially the French Foreign Legion with the serial numbers filed off: a Quraqi air force squadron of foreign pilots, some with dark pasts and some recruited unscrupulously. | |
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In the Honor Harrington books, starting with War of Honor, The Protector's Own Squadron effectively operates this way, owing to its origins: Many of its initial personnel were escaped prisoners from a Havenite prison, including POWs from conquered worlds and a significant number of Havenite political prisoners. The squadron's first vice-commander was a former Havenite naval officer who had fought the heroes in an earlier book. | |
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The Mummy (1999): Rick O'Connell and his buddy Beni start off as Legionnaires before the Medji either kill off most of the platoon or chase them back into the desert. | |
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In Looney Tunes, Porky Pig was a Legionnaire in a couple of cartoons. Even Pepe LePew joins the Legion to forget. Pepe once, in his pursuit of Penelope, accidentally ended up passionately making out with a Parisian man on a park bench. Pepe apologized for the gaffe, and the man wordlessly staggered to the nearest recruitment booth, signed his name, saluted, and fainted dead away. He evidently needed some real Brain Bleach. Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam also had a conflict as Legionnaires. |
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Squad 422 in Valkyria Chronicles III is more or less inspired by this trope. Amongst its members is a convicted murderer, a disgraced noble, an old soldier without a country to call home anymore, a con-man, a repeat arsonist, and people of the "unwanted race". | |
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In Modesty Blaise, Willie Garvin's backstory includes a stint in the Foreign Legion; it's not depicted, but is occasionally referenced as background for his jungle-survival skills (he served in the First Indochina War, rather than the trope-standard North Africa campaign). | |
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The Free Corps from the Shannara series. | |
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Garfield ate a fish and tried to hide it by leaving a note at the fishbowl claiming the fish joined the French Foreign Legion. | |
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Discworld, perhaps unsurprisingly, has its own version of this, the Klatchian Foreign Legion. In Soul Music, Death signs up at one point, under the nom-de-guerre Beau Nidle. It parodies the notion that soldiers enroll to forget: they have forgetten their troubles… and their identities… and their orders… and pretty much everything, really. Except sand. You won't ever forget about sand. | |
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In one Popeye episode, Popeye and Bluto are both in the French Foreign Legion. | |
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One Donald Duck short, "Donald's Diary", shows Donald marrying Daisy and leading a very miserable life when his new in-laws also move in. After waking up to see that it was all a dream, he frantically runs from her house and joins the Foreign Legion to escape his potential fate. | |
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Their satire of Under Two Flags is called "Under Two Floorboards." It was so successful, they actually did a remake. | |
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Harvey Kurtzman parodied this setting in the third issue of MAD. Amid the usual motley assortment of Funny Foreigner stereotypes on the run from the law is a recruit who's run away from his hellish wife and kids in Brooklyn. | |
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In Jerry Pournelle's science fiction stories, the Line troops of the CoDominium Marines were formed from the French Foreign Legion and maintained their Badass Creed and many of their customs, including accepting fugitives and criminals into their ranks. | |
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The Dwarven "Legion of the Dead" is exactly this. Dwarves, or even nondwarves, from any walk of life and any circumstance may join, including the worst criminals and Casteless, and upon joining a funeral is held for the new recruit and all their past sins are absolved. They are considered to "owe" the Dwarven people a death and usually set about earning it by going deep into the Deep Roads to fight the worst of the Darkspawn infestation there. In the Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening expansion pack, there's a Legion of the Dead member whom you can recruit as a follower, ironically by saving her life after the rest of her squad gets wiped out. | |
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Robert Asprin's Phule's Company series has the Space Legion, which is the French Foreign Legion RECYCLED IN SPACE, complete with false names to avoid problems with the law (and in the case of the titular character, to avoid problems that occurred during his service in the Legion when he strafed the surrender talks because 'they dropped their shield'). The idea of the Legion IN SPACE has been used by a lot of pulp and comic book writers. | |
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The Legion Martien from Rocket Age is basically the French Foreign Legion on Mars, including members from every species, caste and race. | |
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Mass Effect 3: The multiplayer squads, in a manner. They are ostensibly Systems Alliance units and operate under Alliance command, with most of their members being human soldiers and other military specialists, but they also include volunteers and mercenaries from a variety of other races, such as turians, asari, krogan, drell, and quarians. With the additional DLC packs, this lineup includes Cerberus defectors, batarians, geth, vorcha, volus, human-made artifical intelligences, and liberated Collectors. It even plays up the "3-years=Citizenship" angle, as a maxed out character can be imported into the single player story as a War Asset. |
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In Sword of the Stars, the entire Liir military is this in that they are so pacifistic that anyone who joins the "Black Swimmers" is considered a sociopath. Most of them never leave the fleet though, they think of themselves as too broken to ever rejoin Liir civilian society. | |
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Traveller uses this as one of the ways a character trains up. | |
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Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam also had a conflict as Legionnaires. | |
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It was used to explain the McGann brothers' 40-year-long absence in Secondhand Lions, and the older brother goes back to it after his wife dies during childbirth (along with the baby). | |
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Several BattleTech mercenary units are loose translations of the original unit into Space Opera Humongous Mecha-setting versions of the Legion. The devs acknowledge where they drew the inspiration from, as a surprising number of mercenary units have 'Legion' in their name and their members are universally addressed as Legionnaires. As far as nations mirroring the French side of the equation, the Capellan Confederation seems to fall closest to the original system—they prefer to spend mercenaries instead of House troops if at all possible, but reward loyal and long serving mercenaries with Capellan citizenship (which must be earned by every individual, as is not granted from birth) and subsequently valuing them the same as House troops. | |
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Some Legionnaires appear in the opening of The Wind and the Lion, but they're quickly killed by the Raisuli's men. | |
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In one episode of Jimmy Neutron, Carl claims he's left to join the Foreign Legion in order to get out of going to investigate a haunted amusement park. Jimmy doesn't buy it and makes him come anyway. | |
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In Archie Comics, Archie and Reggie would often plan to join the Legion after accidentally incurring Moose's wrath by kissing Midge. At the end of one story, they actually do it, and are seen speaking to their captain, who wonders why they never receive mail from home. In stories written after 1961, this threat was often answered by Betty or Veronica reminding them that "the Legion's been disbanded" - (it wasn't actually, but 1961 saw the dissolution of their Algerian base and the fragmentation of the rest of the Legion, a real End of an Era.) | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, the Night's Watch is one of these. Made up of men throughout the Seven Kingdoms, they swear an oath upon joining to guard the Wall against threats from the Far North. Once, in the dim and distant past, they were a proud and honored unit, with "taking the black" being seen as a worthy sacrifice. Now, with duty on the Wall being such a hardship against a threat few believe to exist, it's become more of a punishment. Most of its members are criminals, lowborn outcasts and exiles who chose the wrong side of one political game or another. A common treatment of prisoners of war with no expectation of ransom is to allow them to take the black, as opposed to being held captive or executed. | |
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There was an episode of Keeping Up Appearances in which Hyacinth's (and Daisy, Rose and Violet's) father decided to join, and Hyacinth was trying to stop him... while, of course, admiring him for wanting so badly to join. | |
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Two recurring characters in The Legend of Tarzan, Hugo and Hooft are a pair of former legionnaires who fled to the jungle to escape their General Ripper commanding officer, Lt. Colonel Staquait. | |
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Danger Mouse once encountered a Legionnaire who can't remember what he wanted to forget when he joined. | |
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Snoopy in Peanuts sometimes imagined himself as leader of a Foreign Legion platoon, with a flock of birds as his troops. Also, multiple characters have considered joining the Legion when trying to run away from home. One of these characters was female, even though the Legion specifically forbids women recruits. (Unless they're Susan Travers. Actually the Legion was ordered in 2000 to begin admitting women and the Defense Minister wants to see it completely co-ed by 2020.) |
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The Deathwatch in Warhammer 40,000 is a similar organization, they take volunteers from every Space Marine chapter, and many a Marine from a destroyed Chapter has lived out the remainder of his career amongst their ranks. The Imperial Guard's Penal Legions are composed of criminals sentenced to said Legions. The Penal Legions are always assigned to the most suicidal missions, as they are even more expendable than the already expendable Guardsmen. It is worth noting that "criminal" can mean failing to return a library book on time. |
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Astérix: Asterix and Obelix enlist in the Roman legion in the Sahara in Asterix The Legionary, in what is definitely a parody of the French Foreign Legion. | |
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In Medieval II: Total War, late medieval Central European powers get Forlorn Hope Companies, who are composed extremely resilient (and probably suicidal) veterans armed with Zweihänders, who make great material for head-on rushes. | |
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Exo Squad: Alec DeLeon's backstory explains that he was a petty thief in Paris in his youth and joined Exofleet to escape the past, meaning that it plays the role of FFL in the setting. | |
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One Johnny Bravo cartoon has him join the Foreign Legion by accident, but he spends the entire time trying to "Find the Fort" in the desert with a talking camel before taking a Deus ex Machina back home. | |
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In Kamen Rider Gaim, Oren Pierre Alfonzo / Armoured Rider Bravo is depicted as a former Legionnaire, which has the upshot of making him both one of the most skilled fighters in the cast, and occasionally making him a Drill Sergeant Nasty if the situation calls for it. Of course, he's also a Camp Gay pâtissier, which hardly fits the stereotypical image for a Legionnaire. | |
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In one episode of Cabin Pressure, Martin is dared by Douglas to come up with a story about his exploits as an adventurer, having introduced him over the cabin address as the French Captain du Crieff. Martin improvises a tale of his time in the Legion (upon being reminded they are a non-French regiment he claims they made an exception for him) which involves taking on a polar bear armed only with a whisk. | |
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Crown: Badasses Ren and Jake are former members of the French Foreign Legion. | |
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The archetypal Foreign Legion film is Beau Geste, based on the P.C. Wren novel. The first version was a 1926 silent with Ronald Colman. The best known is probably the 1939 version with Gary Cooper. The novel (and movie) were spoofed to a fare-thee-well in the 1977 film The Last Remake of Beau Geste. | |
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The GURPS version has in canon a couple of units in obscure places that are distinctly patterned after the French Foreign Legion. One of these is the Vilani Legion of the Frontier in GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars. The Foreign Legion is briefly mentioned in Transhuman Space. The 2e Régiment Étranger Spatial is a division that defends France's interests in the rest of the solar system, including a recorded raid on an illegal bioroid factory in Earth orbit. The possibility of a whole sourcebook, Stranger Legion, is on the wish list. Phil Masters even wrote a THS version of "Gentleman Rankers". |
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"Mon Légionnaire," most famously sung by Édith Piaf, is about a woman's yearning for an unhappy legionnaire she knew for a short time. | |
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Suske en Wiske: Lambik enlists himself in the French Foreign Legion in Het Zingende Nijlpaard (The Singing Hippo). | |
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Crock and Beau Peep are set entirely in the French Foreign Legion, with Anachronism Stew in both. | |
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The Goon Show ran an episode parodying the film Beau Geste where Ned, Eccles and Bluebottle were duped into running to Marsalis and joining the Legion. Their satire of Under Two Flags is called "Under Two Floorboards." It was so successful, they actually did a remake. |
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