History Main / MilitaryBrat

* In ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', Bobbie moves around a lot because her parents work in the military.

* Stepanek, the "dedicated pain-in-the-butt" character, from ''Film/DownPeriscope'' was the son of [[spoiler:Admiral Winslow]], and was rebelling... [[SpringtimeForHitler trying to get dismissed from sub duty]]. No one realizes the connection until it's openly stated at the end of the film, because the son is using his mom's maiden name.

[[caption-width-right:350:Your family [[FeudingFamilies feuding]] with a schoolmate family is awkward enough, add in [[InterserviceRivalry Interservice Rivalry]] and it becomes ''downright painful''.]]

* Gus Griswald in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''. Secondary character "Corn Chip Girl" [=LaMaize=] is a Navy brat. Griswold and Corn Chip Girl's respective fathers apparently had a bitter rivalry that almost prevented the two from becoming friends before TJ convinced them into putting aside their feud so they could allow Gus and Corn Chip Girl to be friends, although it's hinted afterwards that even with their children becoming friends, they still retained a slight rivalry (they were seen arguing about whose children should visit whose house for playtime).

[[caption-width-right:350:Your family [[FeudingFamilies feuding]] with a schoolmate family is awkward enough, add in [[InterserviceRivalry Interservice Rivalry]] and it becomes ''downright painful'']]

** [[TheProtagonist Commander]] [[TheHero Shepard]] can be one if you choose the "Spacer" background. It's the only background choice where Shepard isn't an orphan, as the background-specific sidequest reveals that Shepard's mother is alive and still serving with the Alliance as the Executive Officer aboard an Alliance Dreadnought. By the second game, she is the Captain of her own ship, and in the third, she has been promoted to Rear Admiral after surviving the initial Reaper invasion and is now serving directly under Admiral Steven Hackett. Shepard's Father is also mentioned as a military officer in this background, [[DisappearedDad but is never mentioned again beyond the opening line.]]
** Ashley Williams is also one and talks about her family extensively, both because it's a tradition stretching back several generations and because they were unfairly maligned after the First Contact War. This is because Ashley's Grandfather, who was a General commanding the Marine garrison defending the colony of Shanxi, was forced to surrender to the Turian invaders due to low supplies, numerous civilian and military casualties from turian orbital bombardment, and no immediate aid or reinforcements. Thus gaining him the reputation as the first and only human to ever surrender to Aliens. Made worse by the fact that the aftermath of the war created a very prevalent anti-alien culture in the Alliance.[[note]] Primarily because the Turians were the ones who started the conflict when they attacked and destroyed a group of civilian ships without warning. They then chased the survivors back to their colony world, destroyed the defending fleet in orbit, and proceeded to invade and occupy the planet. The turians attempt to justify their actions by claiming that they were merely doing their job upholding Galactic law since the human civilians were attempting to open a dormant Mass Relay which is illegal in Citadel society. The Humans don't accept that as an excuse because humanity had just become space-faring and had never encountered any of the Citadel races. There was no way they could follow a law that they didn't even know existed, that was created by a group of aliens that they also didn't know existed. Not to mention the fact that the turians decided that rather than try to contact the new arrivals and explain that what they were doing was illegal, they instead opted to shoot them and invade their colony without provocation. [[/note]]
** This is actually standard for the Turians, as they're SpaceRomans with significant emphasis on merit and duty. Every citizen is either a member of the military or a reserve member that can be called back into service at any time. All able-bodied individuals are conscripted into the military at the age of 15. (Implied to be the turian age of Legal Adulthood) They then serve for 15 years until they reach 30, at which point they have the choice of either remaining in the military or leaving to do something else but becoming a reservist. [[TheLancer Garrus Vakarian]] is no exception, as his father was a military officer who is implied to be pretty high ranked based on his close ties to the turian ''Primarch'' (Supreme Commander/Commander-in-Chief) and was also a distinguished Citadel Security officer, and although we never get a specific rank, the third game does reveal that Garrus is also a very high-ranking officer when there are ''Generals'' saluting him. It's also heavily implied during the war against the Reapers, that he is very close to being the next Primarch should the current one die.

** Commander Miranda Keyes is the daughter of the famous Captain Jacob Keyes and Doctor Catherine Halsey. While Dr.Halsey was not technically a part of the military, she did work extensively with them in the development of a number of special warfare projects such as the Spartan-II program and Project Mjolnir.

** Commander Shepard can be one if you choose the "Spacer" background. It's the only background choice where Shepard isn't an orphan, as the background-specific sidequest reveals that Shepard's mother is alive and still serving with the Alliance as the Executive Officer aboard an Alliance Dreadnought. By the second game, she is the Captain of her own ship, and in the third, she has been promoted to Rear Admiral after surviving the initial Reaper invasion and is now serving directly under Admiral Steven Hackett. Shepard's Father is also mentioned as a military officer in this background, [[DisappearedDad but is never mentioned again beyond the opening line.]]

* Wrestling/{{Kane}} (born in Spain)

* Rocky Garcia of ''Literature/BadNewsBallet'' is the daughter of Seargeant Garcia, a strict father who always barks his orders and runs the house like a miniature branch of the military. When any of her or her four older brothers get in trouble, they all get punished, and this can result in being "confined to quarters" (sent to your room) or "KP", which means washing dishes for a week.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, Alexandra Mumorovka is a thirteen-year-old [[MilitaryAcademy Air Watch cadet]] who is regarded as the outstanding best of her intake. She is the only daughter of a cavalry colonel, who was brought up on an Army base alongside brothers who are all set for military careers. Catching Witchcraft, she is sponsored by [[TheBaroness Captain Olga Romanoff]], who sees her potential as a born flyer and is eventually brought to Ankh-Morpork and the City Air Watch, where she joins its cadet service.

* LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}'s father was an officer who was serving in South Korea, which is where he met Mark's mother.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' has lots of examples: Commander Miranda Keyes is the daughter of Captain Jacob Keyes. Edward Buck's mother was a Marine. Olympia Vale's mother was a Naval Captain. Sergeant John Forge's family have been soldiers since World War II. Kat-B320 was raised for a time by her retired Army general grandmother. Gabriel Throne was born to a pair of Army troopers.
* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', Commander Shepard can be one if you choose the "Spacer" background. It's the only background choice where Shepard isn't an orphan, as the background-specific sidequest reveals that Shepard's mother is alive and still serving with the Alliance as the Executive Officer aboard an Alliance Dreadnought. By the second game, she is the Captain of her own ship, and in the third, she has been promoted to Rear Admiral after surviving the initial Reaper invasion and is now serving directly under Admiral Steven Hackett. Shepard's Father is also mentioned as a military officer in this background, [[DisappearedDad but is never mentioned again beyond the opening line.]]

* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/SentimentalGraffiti'' met the girls he did because his father was in the military and moved him around a lot as a result.

* Rinoa Heartilly in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. As one can imagine, her joining [[LaResistance a resistance]] movement to oppose the military in which her father is a general [[BigScrewedUpFamily makes things tense]].

* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' features a pre-made playable family called Grunt, which has not only three Military Brats (two teen and one elementary-school-age) but a training facility in the backyard. They ''definitely'' have a strict father, but don't fit the "moving around" as the Sim military never seems to go much of anywhere.
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' has a number of background characters who are the children of Starfleet officers from the various live-action series.
** Lieutenant Kirayoshi O'Brien, chief engineer of the USS ''Enterprise''-F, is the son of SCPO. Miles O'Brien, former chief of operations at [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]]. Meanwhile, the ''Enterprise''[='s=] XO, Commander Samuel Winters, has Starfleet as the family business going back several generations (so much so that he's quick to deny that {{nepotism}} was involved in him getting the assignment to the Federation flagship).
** Commander Naomi Wildman, C.O. of Deep Space K-7, is the grown-up version of the same Naomi Wildman who was a little kid born to a crew member of USS ''Voyager'' in Series/StarTrekVoyager's second season.
** Lieutenant Miral Paris, security chief of the USS ''Kirk'', is the daughter of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, both part of USS ''Voyager's'' command crew and born in the last episode of VOY.

* ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'':
** According to Private Carrera's bio from ''Pro Skater 2'', she is an "army brat" from the USA. The first game listed her as being from Fort Worth, while ''2'' seems to retcon her as being from Roswell, NM. Also, her outfit in ''Pro Skater 3'' makes her resemble a Navy officer.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' has lots of examples: Commander Miranda Keyes is the daughter of Captain Jacob Keyes. Edward Buck's mother was a Marine. Olympia Vale's mother was a Naval Captain. Sergeant John Forge's family have been soldiers since World War II. Kat-B320 was raised for a time by her retired Army general grandmother. Gabriel Throne was born to a pair of Army troopers.
* Ernest the [[DemolitionsExpert Demobird]] from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' comes from a family of soldiers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Fareeha Amari, later known by the callsign Pharah, due to her mother's service in the Egyptian armed forces, and later Overwatch itself. Fareeha herself joined the Egyptian armed forces as well and later became a security officer in a private company. In-game, she has brief interactions with her mother and others which indicate that mother and daughter were alienated from each other in the past but want to patch things up.

*** Recurring characters with the Brat background include Naomi Wildman, the daughter of one of the Science Department ensigns, who is actually born aboard ''Voyager.''

* Lived on a base in a foreign country during their formative years, giving them an excuse for knowing an obscure foreign language or local custom.

*** Geordi La Forge is explicitly described as a "Starfleet brat", with both parents in the service, who rather enjoyed his wandering childhood. (ActorSharedBackground: Creator/LeVarBurton was a real-life Army brat, so La Forge's Starfleet Brat childhood may have been a character aspect addition by the character's actor.). In the alternate future from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things...]]".

*** Geordi La Forge is explicitly described as a "Starfleet brat", with both parents in the service, who rather enjoyed his wandering childhood. (ActorSharedBackground: Creator/LeVarBurton was a real-life Army brat, so La Forge's Starfleet Brat childhood may have been a character aspect addition by the character's actor.). In the alternate future from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things...]]", Geordi has a son who was applying to Starfleet Academy.
*** Worf's adopted human father was a Starfleet enlisted man, who is very proud of his officer son. His biological father served in the Klingon Defense Force.

*** Jake Sisko's father is in Starfleet and he was raised on the eponymous Starfleet space station, though he becomes a novelist instead of joining Starfleet.