History Awesome / StarshipTroopers

** Also, earlier in the film when Zander and Carmen rescue the Roughnecks from the ambush at the outpost, Zander jumps out of the rescue boat almost as soon as it lands and starts laying down covering fire. Say what you will about his [[JerkAss personality]], but the guy is no coward.

** And said planet? ''Klendathu''. It's nothing more than a reconnaisance raid in preparation for the main assault, but they're still hitting Klendathu.

** Johnny Rico: "I'm from Buenos Aires and I say [[KillEmAll kill 'em all!]]"

** Not to mention that before he is brought before the Brain Bug, he discretely hands a knife to Carmen so she might be able to buy herself a few seconds before [[BigDamnHeroes Rico and his troopers]] arrive.

** Pvt. Sugar Watkins's HeroicSacrifice: "Just trying to kill some Bugs, sir!" and how it plays out like a combination of Pvt. Hudson's last stand and Vasquez/Gorman's sacrifice from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': first he keeps firing at the incoming Warrior Bugs [[DefiantToTheEnd taunting and swearing at them]] all the way down until the oxygen nuke he activated [[TakingYouWithMe blows him and all the enemies into fiery oblivion]].

* Rico taking out the first tanker bug they encounter using his old future-football moves to get onto the bug, then blasting a hole in the bug's back and [[InsertGrenadeHere throwing a grenade inside]]. It's topped later by [[TheSquadette Dizzy]] killing one by tossing a grenade ''into its open mouth.''
* From the second film, the platoon sergeant getting infected by the PuppeteerParasite... then shooting herself up with enough adrenaline to give a bull moose a heart attack and going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, killing off about half the bad guys before [[DrivenToSuicide offing herself]] [[HeroicSacrifice to keep from being taken over.]]
* Not to mention: ''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Hey General!]]''
* Pvt. Sugar Watkins: "Just trying to kill some Bugs, sir!" And everything that follows.

* The Bugs themselves get several:

** During the film's second battle sequence, an unfortunate trooper finds out the hard way that Bugs too know how to KillItWithFire.
** The Bugs' bombardment of the ships in orbit around their planet. The Fleet was informed that the bombardment would be random and light. Instead, the bugs demonstrate that they can easily shoot down, from the ground and with no computers to assist them, the majority of the armada with ease.
** The Bugs in general continuously demonstrate that, in spite of humanity's arrogant assumption of superiority, the bugs are better fighters, have superior numbers, and their leaders have far superior intelligence, compared to the humans in this movie. And this is a species that demonstrates no technological advancement whatsoever, to the point that no explanation is even given for how they managed to attain space travel in the first place.
* Zander's defiant, prophetic LastWords: "One day, someone like me is gonna kill you and your whole fucking race!" He might have been a tool for most of the movie but he died like a man.

** See the page quote for PoweredArmor: the opening pages of the book [[TropeCodifier made it a trope forever.]]

* In the final episode, the scene everyone who watches the series was waiting for: the Mobile Infantry executing a drop, from the troopers putting on the suits to them landing on the target planet.
** And said planet? ''Klendathu''.

* Everything [[SergeantRock Zim]] does. When he finally appears in combat, the author is forced to omit the name of the mysterious "best sergeant in the fleet," because by that point the reader already knows that if ''Zim'' goes into a tunnel filled with Bugs he'll get out safe, sound and with a Brain Bug captured.

** Best shown in the opening battle. About fifty of them attack a Skinny city with a spaceport, raze it to the ground, nuke the one starship that was there, and scare the Skinnies into ditching their alliance with the Bugs and join the Federation (the whole point of the attack), and suffer exactly '''''one''''' dead (plus a few wounded).

** The Bugs themselves get several.
*** The Bugs turn the aforementioned Klendathu drop into a win for ''them'', killing 100,000 troopers ''in the first hour of combat.'' By the end of the battle, the human body count has risen to over 300,000. In addition, if you listen, during the battle you can hear a com intercept stating that the Bugs are ''overrunning the retrieval ships.''
*** During the film's second battle sequence, an unfortunate trooper finds out the hard way that Bugs too know how to KillItWithFire.
*** The bug's bombardment of the ships in orbit around their planet. The navy was informed that the bombardment would be random and light. Instead, the bugs demonstrate that they can easily shoot down, from the ground and with no computers to assist them, the majority of the fleet with ease.
*** The bugs in general continuously demonstrate that, in spite of humanity's arrogant assumption of superiority, the bugs are better fighters, have superior numbers, and their leaders have far superior intelligence, compared to the humans in this movie. And this is a species that demonstrates no technological advancement whatsoever, to the point that no explanation is even given for how they managed to attain space travel in the first place.

* Everything [[SergeantRock Zim]] does. It gets to the point that when he goes in combat the author is forced to mysteriously omit the name of the mysterious "best sergeant in the fleet," because by that point the reader already know that if ''Zim'' goes into a tunnel filled with Bugs he'll get out safe, sound and with a Brain Bug captured.

*** The bugs in general continuously demonstrate that, in spite of humanity's arrogant assumption of superiority, the bugs are better fighters, have superior numbers, and their leaders have far superior intelligence, compared to the humans in this movie. And this is a species that demonstrates no technological advancement whatsoever, to the point that no evidence is even given for how they managed to attain space travel in the first place.