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* {{Ubermensch}}: Leiningen's larger-than-life devotion to his success in the middle of the jungle, leading to him repeatedly defying the pressures of nature, makes him this.
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-> "You're insane! They're not creatures you can fight--they're an elemental--an 'act of God!' Ten miles long, two miles wide--ants, nothing but ants!"
'''"Leiningen Versus the Ants"''' is a 1938 short story by German author Carl Stephenson.
Leiningen is a plantation owner in Brazil who believes that human ingenuity and determination can triumph over anything. As such, while all other plantation owners have fled, he decides to fortify and hold his lands against a massive, miles-large swarm of ravenous army ants.
Adapted several times into other media, including a radio program, the movie ''The Naked Jungle'' starring Charlton Heston, and an episode of MacGyver. Also parodied by the cartoon ''Camp Candy'' and a short story from ''NationalLampoon''.
You can read this story online in several places, including [[http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html here]].
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!! "Leiningen Versus the Ants" provides examples of:
* TheAmazon
* BenevolentBoss
* BugWar: While not actually science fiction, the heart of the story is still humans versus inhuman, mindless monsters.
* CrazyPrepared: Leiningen has designed his plantation specifically to defend against an assault by army ants. It's surrounded by a moat built by diverting a river, with locks to let him raise and lower the water level and wash them away. When the mechanism controlling the water level fails and the ants overrun his plantation, he has ''another'' moat protecting the buildings at the center of the plantation. This one is filled with petrol, including backup tanks so he can burn it and refill it multiple times.
* EyeScream: Guess which part of the body the ants attack first...
* AFatherToHisMen: Leiningen, despite not being military. Even facing a gruesome death, Leiningen's workers refuse to abandon him, even when offered an escape route and their full pay to take it. When their only hope comes down to a suicide mission Leiningen takes it upon himself rather then having one of his men attempt it.
* HungryJungle: The Amazon is portrayed as this.
* HumanityIsSuperior: As long as they use their heads.
* KillItWithFire: As detailed in CrazyPrepared, the inner moat does this.
* KillItWithWater: In the end, Leiningen is forced to flood his entire plantation to get rid of the ants.
* MercyKill: the only thing you can do for animals caught by the ants.
* MightyWhitey: Leiningen in a nutshell.
* MisplacedWildlife: Demonstrating the awesome power of the swarm, Leiningen watches them strip a non-native elk to the bone in minutes.
* TheSpock: Leiningen is a partial example.
* TheSwarm
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* BatmanGambit: Leiningen pulls one: after fellow plantation owner [[SmugSnake Gruber]] accuses him of stealing contract workers (whom he recognizes by their whip scars), Leiningen acknowledges that they probably are under contract...but they're murderers, and he has to hang them first. Which he proceeds to do, until the Comissioner steps in and points out that they are entitled to a fair trial (which will certainly find them innocent) first.
* BerserkButton
* EnforcedMethodActing: When Heston splashes perfume over Eleanor Parker, her reaction is completely natural--he wasn't supposed to do that.
* CigarChomper
* DecapitationPresentation: A shrunken head makes an appearance.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Male example.
* DispenseWithThePleasantries: It's a bad sign when the person wanting to dispense with them is your husband, and this is your first meeting.
* DoubleEntendre: A rather nicely done example: after Leiningen flips out on learning that Joanna was married before, she sweeps out with the reminder that "a piano is best when it's been played."
* TheDreaded: "Marabunta."
* FieryRedhead: Joanna
* HarpOfFemininity: ....except that it's a piano. (Which is out of tune}.
* HungryJungle: "The Mayans were some of the most intelligent people on Earth...they stayed in the jungle too long."
* KarmicDeath: Gruber.
* MailOrderBride
* OneLastSmoke: Given to the workers before their "hanging."
* {{Pride}}
* ProperLady
* RiverOfInsanity: For the Comissioner, who is close to a breakdown by the time he comes back.
* SelfMadeMan: Leiningen started out at age nineteen, with four workers and twenty acres. Five years later, he had a hundred workers, and three hundred acres.
* SuggestedBy: ''The Naked Jungle'' is almost entirely about Leiningen coming to terms with his bride, with the ants as an afterthought.
* TalkAboutTheWeather:
--> '''Joanna''': "Everything I say seems to make things worse. I'm trying not to irritate you."
--> '''Leiningen''': "I noticed that. I find it irritating."
* {{Tsundere}}
* YouGotSpunk: And yes, he likes it.
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'''"Leiningen Versus the Ants"''' is a 1938 short story by German author Carl Stephenson.
Leiningen is a plantation owner in Brazil who believes that human ingenuity and determination can triumph over anything. As such, while all other plantation owners have fled, he decides to fortify and hold his lands against a massive, miles-large swarm of ravenous army ants.
Adapted several times into other media, including a radio program, the movie ''The Naked Jungle'' starring Charlton Heston, and an episode of MacGyver. Also parodied by the cartoon ''Camp Candy'' and a short story from ''NationalLampoon''.
You can read this story online in several places, including [[http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html here]].
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!! "Leiningen Versus the Ants" provides examples of:
* TheAmazon
* BenevolentBoss
* BugWar: While not actually science fiction, the heart of the story is still humans versus inhuman, mindless monsters.
* CrazyPrepared: Leiningen has designed his plantation specifically to defend against an assault by army ants. It's surrounded by a moat built by diverting a river, with locks to let him raise and lower the water level and wash them away. When the mechanism controlling the water level fails and the ants overrun his plantation, he has ''another'' moat protecting the buildings at the center of the plantation. This one is filled with petrol, including backup tanks so he can burn it and refill it multiple times.
* EyeScream: Guess which part of the body the ants attack first...
* AFatherToHisMen: Leiningen, despite not being military. Even facing a gruesome death, Leiningen's workers refuse to abandon him, even when offered an escape route and their full pay to take it. When their only hope comes down to a suicide mission Leiningen takes it upon himself rather then having one of his men attempt it.
* HungryJungle: The Amazon is portrayed as this.
* HumanityIsSuperior: As long as they use their heads.
* KillItWithFire: As detailed in CrazyPrepared, the inner moat does this.
* KillItWithWater: In the end, Leiningen is forced to flood his entire plantation to get rid of the ants.
* MercyKill: the only thing you can do for animals caught by the ants.
* MightyWhitey: Leiningen in a nutshell.
* MisplacedWildlife: Demonstrating the awesome power of the swarm, Leiningen watches them strip a non-native elk to the bone in minutes.
* TheSpock: Leiningen is a partial example.
* TheSwarm
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!! The movie ''The Naked Jungle'' provides examples of
* BatmanGambit: Leiningen pulls one: after fellow plantation owner [[SmugSnake Gruber]] accuses him of stealing contract workers (whom he recognizes by their whip scars), Leiningen acknowledges that they probably are under contract...but they're murderers, and he has to hang them first. Which he proceeds to do, until the Comissioner steps in and points out that they are entitled to a fair trial (which will certainly find them innocent) first.
* BerserkButton
* EnforcedMethodActing: When Heston splashes perfume over Eleanor Parker, her reaction is completely natural--he wasn't supposed to do that.
* CigarChomper
* DecapitationPresentation: A shrunken head makes an appearance.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Male example.
* DispenseWithThePleasantries: It's a bad sign when the person wanting to dispense with them is your husband, and this is your first meeting.
* DoubleEntendre: A rather nicely done example: after Leiningen flips out on learning that Joanna was married before, she sweeps out with the reminder that "a piano is best when it's been played."
* TheDreaded: "Marabunta."
* FieryRedhead: Joanna
* HarpOfFemininity: ....except that it's a piano. (Which is out of tune}.
* HungryJungle: "The Mayans were some of the most intelligent people on Earth...they stayed in the jungle too long."
* KarmicDeath: Gruber.
* MailOrderBride
* OneLastSmoke: Given to the workers before their "hanging."
* {{Pride}}
* ProperLady
* RiverOfInsanity: For the Comissioner, who is close to a breakdown by the time he comes back.
* SelfMadeMan: Leiningen started out at age nineteen, with four workers and twenty acres. Five years later, he had a hundred workers, and three hundred acres.
* SuggestedBy: ''The Naked Jungle'' is almost entirely about Leiningen coming to terms with his bride, with the ants as an afterthought.
* TalkAboutTheWeather:
--> '''Joanna''': "Everything I say seems to make things worse. I'm trying not to irritate you."
--> '''Leiningen''': "I noticed that. I find it irritating."
* {{Tsundere}}
* YouGotSpunk: And yes, he likes it.
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