Line #0 Funny/StarshipTroopers


1	Works in this franchise with their own Funny Moments pages:
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3	* ''Funny/StarshipTroopers3Marauder''
4	* ''Funny/StarshipTroopersInvasion''
5	* ''Funny/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles''
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7	[[AC:The Book]]
8	* A bit of narration near the start of the book has Rico reflecting on how he gets the shakes before every drop. The doctors have looked him over, and informed him that nothing's wrong with him. They reassure him that this isn't fear, but rather excitement, like a race horse in the starting gate, rearing to go.
9	-->'''Rico''': I couldn't say about that; [[DeadpanSnarker I've never been a race horse.]]
10	* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Thirty Second Bomb]]. In a fighting force that routinely uses [[KillItWithFire Flame Throwers]] and [[NuclearOption atomic weapons]] in combat, ''this'' is the weapon that Rico feels bad about using. It is designed to loudly announce in the target's native language that it is a bomb, and then issue a loud verbal countdown to induce [[MassOhCrap an appropriate response.]] Rico causes a stampede by tossing it into a Skinny command center.
11	* Rico's eating habits are pretty amusing, considering the amounts of food he and his fellow M.I. troopers can pack away.
12	--> '''Rico''': [We] hit the chow line for half a dozen shell eggs and sundries such as potatoes and ham and hot cakes and so forth and then we hit dirt to go get something to eat.
13	* Rico's taking another moral philosophy course during OCS and is asked to decide whether it's morally correct to go to war for 1,000 [=POWs=] -- or even 1. As far as Rico's concerned, the answer is Yes, but...
14	-->I was stuck. I knew it was the right answer. But I didn't know why. [The teacher] kept hounding me. "Speak up Mr. Rico. This is an exact science. You have made a mathematical statement; you must give proof. Someone may claim that you have asserted, by analogy, that one potato is worth the same price, no more, no less, as one thousand potatoes. No?"\
15	"No, sir!"\
16	"Why not? Prove it."\
17	"[[IceCreamKoan Men are not potatoes]]!"
18	* Rico's UnPaused moment late in the book. He is protesting his commander's decision to use a post-hypnotic suggestion to make Rico take a nap. His commander doesn't seem to know what Rico's going on about, and Rico soon realizes that he was put to sleep halfway through a sentence, waking up hours later and continuing without missing a beat. Nevermind the humorous situation of a SpaceMarine refusing (futilely) to take a nap.
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20	[[AC:Films]]
21	!!! ''Starship Troopers''
22	* This line would be even more funny if it didn't lead to tragic consequences for Zander later on.
23	--> '''Carmen''': ''(after giving her location to Rico)'' The situation is... ''(takes a look around to see that they're surrounded by bugs)'' Situation is [[{{Understatement}} extremely hostile]]!
24	* Carl and his pet ferret, Cyrano. "Go bug Mom!".
25	--> '''Carl''': I gave him the impression that there's a grub crawling up my mothers leg, he's on a mission to go eat it.
26	--> '''Carl's Mom''': (banging noises can be heard upstairs) What are you doing?! GET OFF MY LEG!! AWWWW! ...Carl!
27	* Ace, the living ButtMonkey!
28	** [[HiddenDepths But he plays the violin beautifully]]... Go figure.
29	* Rico tries to record a video-mail to send to Carmen, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent while the other troopers do everything they can to be a distraction behind him.]] Rico's delivery really clinches it.
30	--> '''Rico''': (''as the lights go out and sappy trumpet music starts to play'') [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Uh oh]].
31	* "Have fun! That's an order!"
32	** The tent scene, [[CoitusUninterruptus where 10 more minutes was all Rico needed]].
33	** The fact that Rico had to be ''ordered'' by his commanding officer to hook up.
34	* Sergeant Zim. A LargeHam DrillSergeantNasty played by Creator/ClancyBrown, full stop. In-universe Kitten Smith is unable to keep a straight face at Zim's over-the-top yelling and clichéd drill instructor insults.
35	** Zim punishing Smith by forcing him to run around the armoury. Smith's exaggerated body language to indicate he doesn't want to do it is funny, but the way Zim sends him away telling Corporal Bronski to keep pace, and Bronski ''immediately'' whips out an expandable baton to chase Smith is even funnier.
36	** The mere fact his name is "[[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim]]" can immediately elicit laughter from some viewers.
37	* [[DumbMuscle Breckinridge's]] self-diagnosis after his sparring match with Sergeant Zim: "My arm... I reckon it's broke, Sir." While holding onto his arm at the ''new joint'' that he now has.
38	** Zim agrees with his assessment. "[[RunningGag Medic!]]"
39	* "The enemy cannot push a button... if you disable his hand. [[RunningGag Medic!]]"
40	** "[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic So just ask the Bug to put his hand against the wall, and you'll be good.]]"
41	* Ace and Dizzy showing the still-alive Johnny his death certificate.
42	* When General Owen gets crushed by one of the flying bugs that Rico shot down, Ace turns to Rico and grins stupidly, clearly trying not to laugh. Rico likewise makes small grimace like "Welp, so much for me not wanting that guy dead".
43	* During the Outpost 29 battle, the Warrior Bugs have the bright idea of taking down the support beams of the base's wall to facilitate their siege... but in doing so, the support beam falls down [[EpicFail squashing one of the bugs.]]
44	* The Tanker Bug's AsideGlance to the camera before getting blown up by the grenade Dizzy made it swallow.
45	** Look at the Tanker Bug in the middle of the outpost at the end of the battle. After failing to bring down Carmen and Zander's dropship with its flammable spray, the Tanker Bug looks down and stomps its right front limb, akin to a person angrily slamming their fist in a "Damn it, we almost got 'em!" manner.
46	* While the scene where Carl meets up with Rico and Carmen after Dizzy's BurialInSpace is not exactly funny, this particular line from Carl, delivered very seriously, had this troper chuckling for how unintentionally obscene it sounds when said out loud: "[[ThatCameOutWrong We're going back to P]] to capture that Brain."
47	* After Carl's reading of the Brain Bug's mind, Rico and Carmen catch up to him.
48	--> '''Rico''': It was you wasn't it. You told me how to find Carmen?
49	--> '''Carl''': (''gives a smirk'') ''Well'', that's classified.
50	* The last we see of the Brain Bug is getting probed by scientists, and evidently ''inflated''.
51	* Many of the scenes satirizing military jingoism and literary and film warfare tropes are darkly humorous. Standout examples include the ludicrously harsh and unsafe Boot Camp, the coed showers in the same, the absurd HollywoodTactics the Mobile Infantry employ, Lt. Rasczak rewarding his troops with what are essentially children's toys, and the "new meat" the now-grizzled protagonists critique at the end being children in their early teens.
52	** Although the toys can be TruthInTelevision. When you're bored, a pick-up game of football can be hugely popular. Also, war is about 98% boredom and 2% heart-stopping terror.
53	** One of said scenes is the one with the recruitment officer, which turns war wounds from tragic to hilarious:
54	-->'''Recruitment Officer''': "Good for you!"
55	--> Shakes Johnny's hand with a prosthetic arm
56	-->'''Recruitment officer''' "[[FalseReassurance Mobile infantry made me the man I am today!]]"
57	--> [[CrossesTheLineTwice The camera pans back to show that he has no legs below the knees]]
58	* Fairly early on, a propaganda bit shows that, [[AttackItsWeakPoint if the soldiers shoot a specific point on the bug torso, it will drop the bug instantly]]. Once this bit is seen, the viewer is given scene after scene after scene, throughout the entire movie, of troopers failing to heed this one piece of advice, and each bug taking one magazine or more of ammo to be put down. While it's excusable during the massed assaults by the bugs where it can be difficult to keep calm and fire straight, the situations where it's a squad versus a single bug, and the bug is clearly ''winning'', the absolute incompetence of "ivy-league hopeful" Rico and his even less-intelligent comrades is on full display.
59	** However, it's similarly absurd that the propaganda short indicates that knowing about that weak spot will do anything to help anyone, since it's a thumb sized node on a fast-moving creature ''twice the size of a cow''. No amount of marksmanship training will help most people hit a moving target that small in a live battle, and about the only sound tactic would seem to be lobbing/launching grenades at its underbelly and hoping some shrapnel takes it out... which is kind of hard when your army has no stepping stone between "assault rifle" and "portable nuke". Seeing Johnny's old friend act so smug about how easy the fight's gonna be with knowledge of that "glaring disadvantage" is just icing on the cake.
60	* The news reels have the most peculiar double standards: they censor a live cow being fed to a captive Arachnid, but the gory aftermath of an Arachnid attack on a Mormon colony is shown in detail.
61	* We see a debate on a talk show between a level-headed intellectual who appears to be giving thought to the idea that the Bugs are intelligent... and a dim, wide-eyed, ignorant oaf who balks at the thought with, "FRANKLY, I FIND THE IDEA OF A BUG THAT THINKS OFFENSIVE!" Between him and the [[HollywoodTactics pathetic showing the Mobile Infantry made on Klendathu]], one is left wondering if the Bug hivemind is [[HumansAreMorons pondering whether these monkeys it is fighting can think]].
62	** To take it a step further, these are bugs capable of space travel, anti-spacecraft defense, and is being blamed for sending an asteroid hurtling into the Earth... and the pundit is still declaring that the Bugs can't be intelligent, based on no other arguments than he's never met a bug that thinks and that he finds the idea of one to be offensive, as if that was a valid argument.
63	* One of the propaganda scenes prior to the first (disastrous) attack on Klendathu is about doing your part, with several children stomping on regular sized cockroaches as a woman laughs maniacally and claps in the background. Another earlier in the movie has some of the infantry handing out their guns to kids to play with, with the kids fighting over them and the infantry handing out live bullets like free candy before the scene ends.
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65	[[AC:OVA series]]
66	* Pat, one of Rico's training mates, had a nude picture of his girlfriend. Liking the idea, when Rico stumbles on his crush Carmen on the Moon he asks her for a picture, without specifying the nude bit, she's surprised but happy and is about to agree... Then Pat pops out from a nearby shop and asks him if he got the ''nude'' pic. We don't see Carmen's face until Pat has found out about his horrible timing and ran away-and when we see her again, she's ''furious'' and [[UnprovokedPervertPayback slaps Rico for his assumed intentions]].
67	** While Rico looks at Carmen walking away, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the other MI trainees are berating Pat for his gaffe, with one even giving him a roundhouse kick]].
68	** And during the mail call, Pat gets a DearJohnLetter and has a hilarious breakdown, including trying to break his girlfriend's nude pic (keyword: ''trying'') until "Kitten" Smith takes it so to not waste it. [[MoodWhiplash Just in time for Rico to find out she died during the alien attack on New Buenos Aires]].
69	** When Rico and Carmen meet again after they complete training, she, without telling him anything, gives him a picture of herself-in a swimsuit.
70	* During a training exercise on the Moon, Zim declares that the OPFOR is "cute prairie dogs".
71	** Rico is the first to nail one of the dogs. He then stands in happiness... And [[NoKillLikeOverkill gets hit by a barrage of paintballs from the OPFOR]].
72	* The street fight scene gets a few changes from the novel, chief of which the aggressors being not five Merchant Marines but a dozen common thugs and it's only Rico and "Kitten" Smith to face them... And has some hilarious moments as well:
73	** One of the delinquents wears Chinese clothes and uses Kung Fu, complete with FunnyBruceLeeNoises. Smith just punches him out.
74	** Right after the fight ends, the police arrives... And the two officers trying to make sense of two troopers knocking out a dozen men without even a scratch are a sight to behold.
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76	[[AC:Games]]
77	!!! ''VideoGame/StarshipTroopers'':
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79	* In Compound there's that one guy who talks to the player when the bugs counterattack:
80	-->'''Grunt''': Marauder, you're needed up top, now! I'll stay here and hide-- uh I mean, secure the bunker. Yeah, that's it!
81	* Hauser demanding the player to rescue him in Plasma Mountain.
82	-->'''Hauser''': Good of you to turn up, Marauder, now, if you wouldn't mind dealing with those bugs. Watch out for that Plasma Bug... I don't think she likes me.
83	-->''after saving an injured Hauser''
84	-->'''Hauser''': I'm still alive - [[DeadpanSnarker but no thanks to you, Marauder]].
85	* This exchange after the player kills the [[spoiler:X-Bug]].
86	-->'''Hauser''': I see you've killed my little friend. And won this for the species. Looks like I underestimated you, Marauder. That is not a mistake I make twice.
87	-->'''Harris''': Did I hear that correctly? Was that General Hauser giving you ''a compliment''?
88	* The Mech-Trooper's constant stuttering.
89	-->'''Mech-Trooper''': Just a li-li-li-little lo-lo-lo-longer.
90	-->'''Mech-Trooper''': This one's fine. On to the ne-ne-ne-ne the next one.
91	* In Bug Hives, when an MI squad meets the player:
92	-->'''Sergeant''': A Marauder!?! [[OneManArmy You must be crazier than us coming down here alone]]!

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