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->In Sparta, we were taken from our homes as children and raised in the Agoge. We marched or we drowned. Fought for scraps or starved. Our elders beat us 'til we could not stand. At night we made our way home, alone, or were food for wolves. ''That'' is how Spartans are made.
-->--'''Kratos''', ''Videogame/GodOfWarRagnarok''
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->In Sparta, we were taken from our homes as children and raised in the Agoge. We marched or we drowned. Fought for scraps or starved. Our elders beat us 'til we could not stand. At night we made our way home, alone, or were food for wolves. ''That'' is how Spartans are made.
-->--'''Kratos''', ''Videogame/GodOfWarRagnarok''
-->--'''Kratos''', ''Videogame/GodOfWarRagnarok''
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-> You cannot make a good soldier until you have trained him to the point he can take some pride in merely surviving it.
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-> You ''You cannot make a good soldier until you have trained him to the point he can take some pride in merely surviving it.''
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-> Train hard, fight easy.
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-> Train ''Train hard, fight easy.''
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-> Pain is weakness leaving the body.
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-> Pain ''Pain is weakness leaving the body.''
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-> ...here are a few more pictures of Spetsnaz training, which, as far as I can tell, is basically just a bunch of big, gigantic, frighteningly-jacked Russian dudes beating the unholy shitburgers out of each other with pipes, chains, and dead cats, all of which may or may not currently be on fire.
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->For no man ever proves himself a good man in war \\
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go close against the enemy and fight with his hands.
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go close against the enemy and fight with his hands.''
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-> Their drills are bloodless battles and their battles are bloody drills!
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-> Their ''Their drills are bloodless battles and their battles are bloody drills!drills!''
! Fiction
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-> Your life shall be a series of trials, one after the other until you attain the glory that is your due at the right side of the Emperor. You shall face the hardest first, so that we know we are not wasting our time.
-->-- '''Chaplain Sighelm, of the Celestial Lions''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
-> Each of the Legions has now nominated aspirants seeking to throw themselves upon our mercy in the vain hope that we may deem them worthy to join our ranks. Those loyal to the shrunken corpse on Terra still cling to their own processes by which perhaps one in a hundred neophytes may survive to become a battle brother. The methods I have developed over the last millennia are more stringent, for we must be pure in our hatred and hard of heart, body and soul. Fewer than one in every thousand survive, and I strive each day to lengthen these odds still further.
-->-- '''Fabius Bile, Lieutenant Commander of the Emperor's Children''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
-->-- '''Chaplain Sighelm, of the Celestial Lions''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
-> Each of the Legions has now nominated aspirants seeking to throw themselves upon our mercy in the vain hope that we may deem them worthy to join our ranks. Those loyal to the shrunken corpse on Terra still cling to their own processes by which perhaps one in a hundred neophytes may survive to become a battle brother. The methods I have developed over the last millennia are more stringent, for we must be pure in our hatred and hard of heart, body and soul. Fewer than one in every thousand survive, and I strive each day to lengthen these odds still further.
-->-- '''Fabius Bile, Lieutenant Commander of the Emperor's Children''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
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-> Your ''Your life shall be a series of trials, one after the other until you attain the glory that is your due at the right side of the Emperor. You shall face the hardest first, so that we know we are not wasting our time.
time.''
-->-- '''Chaplain Sighelm, of the Celestial Lions''',''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
->Each ''Each of the Legions has now nominated aspirants seeking to throw themselves upon our mercy in the vain hope that we may deem them worthy to join our ranks. Those loyal to the shrunken corpse on Terra still cling to their own processes by which perhaps one in a hundred neophytes may survive to become a battle brother. The methods I have developed over the last millennia are more stringent, for we must be pure in our hatred and hard of heart, body and soul. Fewer than one in every thousand survive, and I strive each day to lengthen these odds still further.
further.''
-->-- '''Fabius Bile, Lieutenant Commander of the Emperor's Children''',''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
-->-- '''Chaplain Sighelm, of the Celestial Lions''',
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-->-- '''Fabius Bile, Lieutenant Commander of the Emperor's Children''',
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Mister, I'll make a man out of you
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
->''When a mother gives birth in our fortress, the guards come and take the child away. The mother may protest, but the child no longer belongs to her, but the fortress. \\
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
->''When a mother gives birth in our fortress, the guards come and take the child away. The mother may protest, but the child no longer belongs to her, but the fortress. \\
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Mister, I'll make a man out of you
you''
-->-- '''Shang''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
->''When ->When a mother gives birth in our fortress, the guards come and take the child away. The mother may protest, but the child no longer belongs to her, but the fortress. \\
-->-- '''Shang''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
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They are the Children Of Armok.''
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They are the Children Of Armok.''
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-->-- '''Monte Cassino''', by Creator/SvenHassel.
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-->-- '''Monte Cassino''', ''Literature/MonteCassino'', by Creator/SvenHassel.
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->Let's get down to business \\
To defeat the Huns \\
[[StayInTheKitchen Did they send me daughters]] \\
[[ARealManIsAKiller when I asked for sons?]] \\
You're the saddest bunch I ever met, but you can bet before we're through \\
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' \\
''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
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->Today I'm starting High School, where boys are turned to men\\
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->Today I'm starting High School, high school, where boys are turned to men\\
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The weedy kids were left to dies a breakfast for the birds\\
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The weedy kids were left to dies a as breakfast for the birds\\
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->Today I'm starting High School, where boys are turned to men\\
I've packed my sword and shield, we don't use paper and pen\\
Everyone's a jock here, we don't have Spartan nerds\\
The weedy kids were left to dies a breakfast for the birds\\
We're taught to love a fight, we're taught not to be meek\\
And if we're good they feed us three square meals every week\\
''Let's go fighting now, fighting is exciting now, rocking at the Spartan school''
-->--''Series/HorribleHistories'', "Spartan School Musical"
I've packed my sword and shield, we don't use paper and pen\\
Everyone's a jock here, we don't have Spartan nerds\\
The weedy kids were left to dies a breakfast for the birds\\
We're taught to love a fight, we're taught not to be meek\\
And if we're good they feed us three square meals every week\\
''Let's go fighting now, fighting is exciting now, rocking at the Spartan school''
-->--''Series/HorribleHistories'', "Spartan School Musical"
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The reasons Alexander the Great didn't conquer Sparta were largely unrelated to the quality of the Spartiates. Besides, this trope is supposed to be about Spartan-like training, not Sparta's reputation for badassery.
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-> ''"[[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat Alexander]], son of Philip, and all the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians..."''.
-->-- Oath taken by Alexander at the head of the Corinthian League before the Invasion of Persia. Sparta (whose capital was Laceadaemon) had pointedly declined to join him.
-> "We can very well imagine\\
that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta\\
to this inscription. "Except the Lacedaemonians",\\
but naturally. The Spartans were not\\
to be led and ordered about\\
as precious servants. Besides\\
a panhellenic campaign without\\
a Spartan king as a leader\\
would not have appeared very important.\\
O, of course "except the Lacedaemonians."\\
[...]\\
And out of the remarkable panhellenic campaign,\\
victorious, brilliant,\\
celebrated, glorious\\
as no other had ever been glorified,\\
the incomparable: we emerged;\\
a great new Greek world.\\
[...]\\
Talk about Lacedaimonians after that!"
-->-- '''C. P. Cavafy''', ''In 200 B. C.''
-->-- Oath taken by Alexander at the head of the Corinthian League before the Invasion of Persia. Sparta (whose capital was Laceadaemon) had pointedly declined to join him.
-> "We can very well imagine\\
that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta\\
to this inscription. "Except the Lacedaemonians",\\
but naturally. The Spartans were not\\
to be led and ordered about\\
as precious servants. Besides\\
a panhellenic campaign without\\
a Spartan king as a leader\\
would not have appeared very important.\\
O, of course "except the Lacedaemonians."\\
[...]\\
And out of the remarkable panhellenic campaign,\\
victorious, brilliant,\\
celebrated, glorious\\
as no other had ever been glorified,\\
the incomparable: we emerged;\\
a great new Greek world.\\
[...]\\
Talk about Lacedaimonians after that!"
-->-- '''C. P. Cavafy''', ''In 200 B. C.''
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->''"A Spartan ''never'' lets his back hit the ground. Even in death, a Spartan stands tall for battle. You are a Spartan, are you not?!"''
-->--'''Kratos''' to his brother Deimos, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta''
-->--'''Kratos''' to his brother Deimos, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta''
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[[StayInTheKitchen Did they give me daughters]] \\
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[[StayInTheKitchen Did they give send me daughters]] \\
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You're the saddest lot I ever knew, but you can bet, before we're through \\
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You're the saddest lot bunch I ever knew, met, but you can bet, bet before we're through \\
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->''"A Spartan ''never'' lets his back hit the ground. Even in death, a Spartan stands tall for battle. You are a Spartan, are you not?!"''
-->--'''Kratos''' to his brother Deimos, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta''
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-> ''"[[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat Alexander]], son of Philip, and all the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians..."''.
-->-- Oath taken by Alexander at the head of the Corinthian League before the Invasion of Persia. Sparta (whose capital was Laceadaemon) had pointedly declined to join him.
-> "We can very well imagine\\
that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta\\
to this inscription. "Except the Lacedaemonians",\\
but naturally. The Spartans were not\\
to be led and ordered about\\
as precious servants. Besides\\
a panhellenic campaign without\\
a Spartan king as a leader\\
would not have appeared very important.\\
O, of course "except the Lacedaemonians."\\
[...]\\
And out of the remarkable panhellenic campaign,\\
victorious, brilliant,\\
celebrated, glorious\\
as no other had ever been glorified,\\
the incomparable: we emerged;\\
a great new Greek world.\\
[...]\\
Talk about Lacedaimonians after that!"
-->-- '''C. P. Cavafy''', ''In 200 B. C.''
-->-- Oath taken by Alexander at the head of the Corinthian League before the Invasion of Persia. Sparta (whose capital was Laceadaemon) had pointedly declined to join him.
-> "We can very well imagine\\
that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta\\
to this inscription. "Except the Lacedaemonians",\\
but naturally. The Spartans were not\\
to be led and ordered about\\
as precious servants. Besides\\
a panhellenic campaign without\\
a Spartan king as a leader\\
would not have appeared very important.\\
O, of course "except the Lacedaemonians."\\
[...]\\
And out of the remarkable panhellenic campaign,\\
victorious, brilliant,\\
celebrated, glorious\\
as no other had ever been glorified,\\
the incomparable: we emerged;\\
a great new Greek world.\\
[...]\\
Talk about Lacedaimonians after that!"
-->-- '''C. P. Cavafy''', ''In 200 B. C.''
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-->-- '''BadassOfTheWeek''' regarding [[http://badassoftheweek.com/leonov.html Spetsnaz training.]]
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-->-- '''BadassOfTheWeek''' '''Website/BadassOfTheWeek''' regarding [[http://badassoftheweek.com/leonov.html Spetsnaz training.]]
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-->-- ''ASongOfIceAndFire''
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-->-- ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''
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->As you may have noticed, [[TheSocialDarwinist we have no compunctions about winnowing out the weak among you]]. How many of you lost packmates, not to the enemy, but to those of the Sabbat? All of you raise your hands. Do you realize what a compliment to your natures that we bothered to separate you from the chaff? You are wheat, each and every one of you. Were you not, you would not be sitting here tonight. We take only the best and we keep only the best of the best. Only those of you who have proved yourselves trustworthy have survived to learn our secrets. Now, little ones, do you realize the magnitude of what lies before you - and the depths of the abyss over which you have just crossed?
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Lasombra''
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-->-- ''Monte Cassino'', '''Monte Cassino''', by Creator/SvenHassel.
