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Spiritual Licensee is a redirect of Spirutal Adaptation, and all these examples should go on the works they're describing, which I'm pretty sure is already the case.
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* SpiritualLicensee: Suffice to say every SpaceMarine BugWar franchise can claim a link to ''Starship Troopers''.
** ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is often considered to be the most faithful adaptation of ''Starship Troopers'' ever made, due to the various similarities. James Cameron even required the actors playing Colonial Marines to read ''Starship Troopers'' to better help them get in-character as members of a futuristic fighting force. Now, on the flip side, the Space Marines of ''Aliens'' themselves were the inspiration for other SpaceMarines, such as the ones in the film of Starship Troopers.
** ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' owes a lot to ''Starship Troopers'', especially with the Spartans' Mjolnir armor and [=ODSTs'=] [[ItsRainingMen drop pods]]. Its spinoff game ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' features those shock troopers fighting the Drones.
** There's also the novel's portrayal of Sanctuary as an Earth-like planet and populated backup military headquarters, much as [[VideoGame/HaloReach Reach]] is in the ''Halo'' universe. The novel even has a proto-version of the Cole Protocol from ''Halo'', in that naval officers and navigators are under enforced orders to keep Sanctuary's coordinates secret from any others at any costs.
** ''{{VideoGame/Starcraft}}'' has plenty of references to and points of inspiration from ST as well. The insectoid, swarming Zerg are obviously a more diverse version of the Bugs, while the alien humanoid Protoss recall the "Skinnies" that Rico and his platoon fight at the beginning of the novel (though definitely more militarily competent).
** SpaceMarines in PoweredArmour fighting large bugs? ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''.
** SpaceMarines fighting large bugs for a government that liberally uses propaganda to justify the war? ''VideoGame/{{Helldivers}}'' and its sequel.
** ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is often considered to be the most faithful adaptation of ''Starship Troopers'' ever made, due to the various similarities. James Cameron even required the actors playing Colonial Marines to read ''Starship Troopers'' to better help them get in-character as members of a futuristic fighting force. Now, on the flip side, the Space Marines of ''Aliens'' themselves were the inspiration for other SpaceMarines, such as the ones in the film of Starship Troopers.
** ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' owes a lot to ''Starship Troopers'', especially with the Spartans' Mjolnir armor and [=ODSTs'=] [[ItsRainingMen drop pods]]. Its spinoff game ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' features those shock troopers fighting the Drones.
** There's also the novel's portrayal of Sanctuary as an Earth-like planet and populated backup military headquarters, much as [[VideoGame/HaloReach Reach]] is in the ''Halo'' universe. The novel even has a proto-version of the Cole Protocol from ''Halo'', in that naval officers and navigators are under enforced orders to keep Sanctuary's coordinates secret from any others at any costs.
** ''{{VideoGame/Starcraft}}'' has plenty of references to and points of inspiration from ST as well. The insectoid, swarming Zerg are obviously a more diverse version of the Bugs, while the alien humanoid Protoss recall the "Skinnies" that Rico and his platoon fight at the beginning of the novel (though definitely more militarily competent).
** SpaceMarines in PoweredArmour fighting large bugs? ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''.
** SpaceMarines fighting large bugs for a government that liberally uses propaganda to justify the war? ''VideoGame/{{Helldivers}}'' and its sequel.
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I can't even muster the words. YMMV can't be played with, the correct trope was potholed at the end and the actual trope the example was describing has an entry describing Equal Opportunity Evil, which isn't YMMV.
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* DesignatedHero: A rare '''inversion''', or perhaps an [[IntendedAudienceReaction intentional example]] that backfired. While Verhoeven made the message - namely, that the humans are an evil fascist empire squandering their lives in the mistaken belief that WarIsGlorious, and [[YouBastard you're a bad guy]] for cheering them on - as [[{{Anvilicious}} screamingly obvious as he possibly could]], the movie is still ''filmed'' in the style of Hollywood sci-fi action/war movies as a rather unflattering take on the intersection between Hollywood gung-ho propagandism and American government imperialist behavior. In spite of that, there are still people out there who [[MisaimedFandom think it's just a straight-up awesome action movie]], because hey, [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing blowing up evil giant alien bugs in space with co-ed showers!]]
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: While the Federation is portrayed as a jingoistic and highly authoritarian power, it's still shown to be a society with egalitarianism along race and gender lines, a system where leaders are held accountable and ousted for bad decisions, ''some'' tolerance for dissenting opinions, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking co-ed showers]].
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: While Verhoeven made the Federation message - namely, that the humans are an evil fascist empire squandering their lives in the mistaken belief that WarIsGlorious, and [[YouBastard you're a bad guy]] for cheering them on - as [[{{Anvilicious}} screamingly obvious as he possibly could]], the movie is portrayed still ''filmed'' in the style of Hollywood sci-fi action/war movies as a jingoistic rather unflattering take on the intersection between Hollywood gung-ho propagandism and highly authoritarian power, American government imperialist behavior. In spite of that, there are still people out there who [[MisaimedFandom think it's still shown to be just a society straight-up awesome action movie]], because hey, blowing up evil giant alien bugs in space with egalitarianism along race and gender lines, a system where leaders are held accountable and ousted for bad decisions, ''some'' tolerance for dissenting opinions, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking co-ed showers]]. showers!
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* ShallowParody: The film is an InNameOnly adaptation of [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the book]] to begin with, so this was inevitable. By his own admission, Creator/PaulVerhoeven only read part of the book and decided that it was endorsing Fascism (which it doesn't; as with all things concerting Creator/RobertAHeinlein, the views expressed in the book are much more complicated and [[AuthorFilibuster long-winded]]), causing the film to [[WindmillPolitical satirize political aspects of the book that it doesn't have]]. Consequently, while the film works overall as a satire of fascism and militarism, its attempts to take on the book are... questionable. The Mobile Infantry are portrayed as a bunch of clueless CannonFodder in an effort to portray them [[FascistButInefficient realistically]], but the book's Mobile Infantry are a highly-trained group of EliteMooks who get badass PoweredArmor, [[YouNukeEm shoulder-mounted nukes]] and are deployed in {{Drop Pod}}s very unlike the film's dropships, and the book goes out of its way to describe how each and every one of them is a OneManArmy. The movie also makes it ambiguous to [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman how sentient the Bugs are]] and implies that HumansAreTheRealMonsters in order to contrast the book's supposed jingoism, even though [[RedundantParody the killing of nonhumans is something that Johnnie Rico grapples with in the book]]. Finally, the Federation is portrayed as a hyper-miltaristic nation in which citizenship can only be obtained through military service as a satire of the book's Federation, where citizenship can be obtained by doing multiple different kinds of civil service, not just military-based.
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** Also the closest to a Terran vs Zerg scenario from ''Franchise/StarCraft''.
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** Also the closest film to a Terran vs Zerg scenario from ''Franchise/StarCraft''.''Franchise/StarCraft'' to this day.
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** Also the closest to a Terran vs Zerg scenario from ''Franchise/StarCraft''.
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Colbert Bump is trivia.
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* ColbertBump: The film gained a resurgence in interest following the release of ''VideoGame/{{Helldivers}} 2'', which has oft been described as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Starship Troopers''. Even the director of the game was [[https://www.ign.com/articles/helldivers-2-director-starship-troopers-renewed-interest-incredible pleasantly surprised]] by this.
