History Comicbook / SgtRock

Sgt. Rock appeared in animated form in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "The Savage Time". While a live-action film version has often been discussed (both Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Creator/BruceWillis were attached at various times), no project ever made it out of DevelopmentHell. However, Rock did appear in his own ''DC Showcase'' short in 2019 in which his Easy Company was lost in battle and he is assigned to lead the Creature Commandos instead.

During [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the Silver Age]], Sgt. Rock often had {{Crossover}} stories with DC's other recurring war features, including ''ComicBook/TheHauntedTank'', Johnny Cloud, and Mademoiselle Marie. Inevitably, Rock eventually met ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/{{Superman}}, and other DC superhero characters - sometimes in stories involving time travel, but sometimes with a "present-day" Rock. He even appeared in DC's [[TropeCodifier trope-codifying]] CrisisCrossover, ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.

* TheMultiverse: During [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks the Bronze Age]], fans occasionally debated whether Rock's adventures took place on Earth-1, Earth-2, both, or neither.

During [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the Silver Age]], Sgt. Rock often had {{Crossover}} stories with DC's other recurring war features, including ''ComicBook/TheHauntedTank'', Johnny Cloud, and Mademoiselle Marie. Inevitably, Rock eventually met Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/{{Superman}}, and other DC superhero characters - sometimes in stories involving time travel, but sometimes with a "present-day" Rock. He even appeared in DC's [[TropeCodifier trope-codifying]] CrisisCrossover, ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Now, any story that does ''not'' have Rock dying "from the last bullet fired in the last battle on the last day" of fighting in the ETO, including the Haney ''Comicbook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' issues (though many people will say they only take place in Bob Haney's wonderfully wacky sub-verse) and "General" Rock acting as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the [[PresidentEvil Luthor Administration]]. (Of course, General Rock wasn't Rock in that series either. It was ultimately hinted to be the still-alive ComicBook/UnknownSoldier).

* CrisisCrossover: Easy Company was involved in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. The scene of the Joes attempting to size up Comicbook/SwampThing on the Monitor's satellite was priceless.

* GuestStarPartyMember: Thanks to time travel and amnesia, ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' was briefly a member of Easy!

''Sgt. Rock'' is a [[PrintLongRunners long-running]] Creator/DCComics war feature, set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The titular character first appeared in ''"Our Army at War''" #81 (April, 1959), created by writer Creator/RobertKanigher and artist Joe Kubert. Rock became DC's most prominent recurring war character, in a genre where one-shot stories with non-recurring characters were the norm.

* OutOfGenreExperience: ''Between Hell and a Hard Place'' is a NoirEpisode with the push toward Berlin as a backdrop, centered around the mystery of who shot three captured SS officers point blank, with Sgt. Rock playing detective and looking for the sole survivor. The dialogue is snappy and the morals are gray,

* OutOfGenreExperience: ''Between Hell and a Hard Place'' is a NoirEpisode with the push toward Berlin as a backdrop, centered around the mystery of who shot three captured SS officers point blank, with Sgt. Rock playing detective and looking for the sole survivor.

* HeHadAName / ThatManIsDead: In ''ComicBook/SgtRock: Between Hell and a Hard Place'', after a soldier lost a comrade in battle, he is upset when Sgt. Rock gives everyone nicknames. He invokes this trope to call in Rock’s apparent callousness. ("He had a name, and worked in a steel mill!"). Rock then defies this trope it explaining that they are at war, and that war needs them to be other men than they were:

* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Little Sure Shot wears feathers on the back of his helmet, but they're commented on and justified in-universe in that, as a sniper, he needs to be identifiable from a long distance.[[note]]In real life, however, a sniper would obviously not want to draw attention to himself in his hide.[[/note]]

* DeskJockey: Gen. Bentley. Throughout his career, he longed for a combat assignment, but was always relegated to Supply. Probably for the best, because [[spoiler:the one time he saw combat, he messed up and Sgt. Rock had to save the day.]]

* DontCallMeSir: Sgt. Rock is very proud of his enlisted status, and strongly resists any effort to promote him to officer. The one time he was (briefly) promoted to Lieutenant, he managed to get himself demoted to Sergeant pretty quickly

* DontCallMeSir:

'''Sgt. Rock:''' ''Now get back to your foxholes, you combat-happy joes! Don't you know there's a war on?''