History SelfDemonstrating / RLeeErmey

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For your ignorant ignoramuses' information, I was ''not'' acting out of character for praising Film/ForrestGump! That boy learned right away what most of these smart-alecky recruits need a good ass-kicking to learn, namely that ''your mission is listen to and act on your commander's orders!'' My praising him was to show the rest of those lowlifes what they're supposed to be doing, and that they might earn it too if by some miracle of God they actually pull it off! I don't change my tone of voice though, because I do not tolerate backsliding under any circumstances!

** ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', in addition to being named for ''Full Metal Jacket'', includes an episode where the protagonist takes up a DrillSergeantNasty persona when coaching a rugby team; in the English version, he even does a spot-on impersonation–minus the voice, of course–that would've made me proud! He's no maggot, but I'll bet that chickenshit bleep censor operator had a good time trying to be funny by censoring his sailor mouth!
** ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' did the same, but adapted my words for MagicalGirl training! Just listen to this disgustingly sweet take on my words, and you maggots will not soon forget that every language, both literal (e.g. English and Japanese) and figurative (e.g. the language of love), has its own way of getting my message through to the local unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit!

[[Film/FullMetalJacket I am Gunnery Sergeant Ermey, your Senior Trope Instructor. From now on the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir", do you tropers understand that?]]

What are you looking at, numbnuts? Yeah, I'm talking to you! You wanna know all about me? Well, let me tell you something, maggot: I'm only going to tell you what's within your pay grade!

* FountainOfExpies: Like I said before, I am ''the'' walking, talking example of what popular culture assumes a DrillSergeantNasty is! That's why lots of other TV shows and movies pattern their drill sergeant characters after me. I'll admit those writers and producers have good taste, but ''nobody'', and I mean '''nobody''', can pull off the drill sergeant character as well as I do! You got that, numbnuts?!?

* CastTheExpert: Like I said earlier, I was so fucking good at being a DrillSergeantNasty I got my most famous film role by showing Stanley Kubrick how it's done and not letting either of my balls drop off even as I faced both Tennis Ball Hell ''and'' Rotten Orange Hell at the same fucking time!

* SemperFi: Once a Marine, always a Marine, maggot! I cut my teeth in Vietnam, so I know what the fuck I'm talking about here! Hell, I was the first Marine in history to be promoted after retirement! Do you know what kind of badass gets promoted after he leaves the job? Because I sure as shit do--there's a damn good reason my ashes are buried in the columbarium at Arlington!

** ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' did the same, but adapted my words for MagicalGirl training! Just listen to this disgustingly sweet take on my words, and you maggots will not soon forget that every language, both literal (e.g. English and Japanese) and figurative (e.g. the language of love), has its own way of getting my message through to the local unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit!

* SemperFi: Once a Marine, always a Marine, maggot! I cut my teeth in Vietnam, so I know what the fuck I'm talking about here! Hell, I was the first Marine in history to be promoted after retirement! Do you know what kind of badass gets promoted after he leaves the job? Because I sure as shit do--there's a damn good reason my ashes are buried at Arlington!

!!Preseeeent... TROPES!

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* {{Defictionalization}}: 15 fucking years of awkwardness followed my iconic performance as a Gunnery Sergeant (E-7), because I had retired as a Staff Sergeant (E-6), and yet thanks to said iconic role people mistook me for an actual Gunnery Sergeant! Then the Marine Corps graciously promoted me to Gunnery Sergeant–an unprecedented move!–for my continued service promoting the Corps and its values.

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* SemperFi: Once a Marine, always a Marine, maggot! I cut my teeth in Vietnam, so I know what the fuck I'm talking about here! Hell, I was the first Marine in history to be promoted after retirement! Do you know what kind of badass gets promoted after he leaves the job? Because I sure as shit do!
* ShoutOut: ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', in addition to being named for ''Full Metal Jacket'', includes an episode where the protagonist takes up a DrillSergeantNasty persona when coaching a rugby team; in the English version, he even does a spot-on impersonation–minus the voice, of course–that would've made me proud! He's no maggot, but I'll bet that chickenshit bleep censor operator had a good time trying to be funny by censoring his sailor mouth!

** At one point, though, we took a break so I could explain what a "reach around" was to Kubrick. He asked, I delivered, and he laughed his ass off! That's how that line got in the final cut!

* DoesNotLikeSpam: In ''Mail Call'', I apparently make it fucking clear that watermelons are my "sworn enemy", and are good only for target practice, both there ''and'' in ''Lock n' Load''. However, as I once said, some people think I don't like watermelons. Well, that's not true - I just believe you gotta kill it before you eat it. Honestly, I have nothing against watermelons! It's just that heads are so much more expensive. Of course, I did tell Private Snowball that he wouldn't like that (in addition to fried chicken) watermelon isn't served on a daily basis in my mess hall.

* TheDeterminator: I got knocked off the road once, but not out! I flashed my light for hours hoping someone would find me, and someone did!

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: OK, I can be a lot softer when I'm not playing the DrillSergeantNasty; in fact, the bloopers for Mail Call made me out to be a [[BumblingDad bumbling old dad type]] whenever I flubbed my lines. Nevertheless... I had to convince Stanley Kubrick that even a nice guy like myself could be such a nasty character as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman with the audition I just mentioned! It took tenacity! It took skill! And most of all, it took balls! Do you maggots understand that?

I was born in the year 1944, towards the end of World War II–and for those of you who thought it was easy to save the world back in 1918, World War I was just practice!–and served in the United States Marine Corps as a drill instructor in 'Nam, which was just practice for yelling at you for being the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the Goddamned common courtesy to give him a reach-around! As an actor, I got my big break playing the type of character I was famous for being in real life, when you were just a glimmer in your mother's eye, in Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. Compared to me, my character was a sadistic and foul-mouthed son-of-a-bitch whose training methods ended with one maggot driven insane and the son-of-a-bitch dead at the hands of the same fucking maggot! And in case you were wondering, many of my lines were unscripted, and you have Kubrick himself to thank for it–''especially'' since he doesn't normally allow his talent to improvise as though they were on the [[Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany Reduced Shakespeare]] comedy circuit!

I may have died in 2018 from complications from pneumonia, but that's no excuse! What part of "once a Marine, always a Marine" is not registering here? Even now, I'm still one of the baddest men to ever grace the silver screen, and don't you ever forget it!

* SemperFi: Once a Marine, always a Marine, maggot! I cut my teeth in Vietnam, so I know what the fuck I'm talking about here!

I was born in the year 1944, towards the end of World War II–and for those of you who thought it was easy to save the world back in 1918, World War I was just practice!–and served in the United States Marine Corps as a drill instructor in Nam, which was just practice for yelling at you for being the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the Goddamned common courtesy to give him a reach-around! As an actor, I got my big break playing the type of character I was famous for being in real life, when you were just a glimmer in your mother's eye, in Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. Compared to me, my character was a sadistic and foul-mouthed son-of-a-bitch whose training methods ended with one maggot driven insane and the son-of-a-bitch dead at the hands of the same fucking maggot! And in case you were wondering, many of my lines were unscripted, and you have Kubrick himself to thank for it–''especially'' since he doesn't normally allow his talent to improvise as though they were on the [[Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany Reduced Shakespeare]] comedy circuit!

* SemperFi

* AscendedExtra: You may be too shitbrained to know this, but I wasn't Stanley Kubrick's first choice for the role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''–in fact, his reason for wanting me on board was accuracy advice. But then I did a demonstration on how to portray a DrillSergeantNasty, chewing out the camera for fifteen straight minutes, through a hail of tennis balls and fucking rotten oranges, never once moving, changing my expression, or repeating myself. I ended up getting the part by yelling at Kubrick, "YOU STAND UP WHEN I TALK TO YOU!!!" Kubrick found himself doing so automatically, and the rest is history!

I was born in the year 1944, towards the end of World War II–and for those of you who thought it was easy to save the world back in 1918, World War I was just practice!–and served in the United States Marine Corps as a drill instructor in Nam, which was just practice for yelling at you for being the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the Goddamned common courtesy to give him a reach-around! As an actor, I got my big break playing the type of character I was famous for being in real life, when you were just a glimmer in your mother's eye, in Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. Compared to me, my character was a sadistic and foul-mouthed son-of-a-bitch whose training methods ended with one maggot driven insane and the son-of-a-bitch dead at the hands of the same fucking maggot! And in case you were wondering, many of my lines were unscripted, and you have Kubrick himself to thank for it–''especially'' since he doesn't normally allow his talent to improvise as though they were on the [[ReducedShakespeareCompany Reduced Shakespeare]] comedy circuit!

And thanks to my performance, I am now the poster child for DrillSergeantNasty–and don't you fucking forget it, numbnuts!–and landed myself roles in other movies, as well as a slew of voice-over work–my distinct gruff voice makes me ideal for hardass military types, and don't you dare call me a [[{{MASH}} Regular Army Clown]] for it, I'm dead serious!–and ultimately a hosting job for several [[TheHistoryChannel History Channel]] programs about the military, including ''Mail Call'' and ''Lock n' Load''–history programs as only a drill sergeant could do them. I was also Series/{{House}}'s father, an abusive ex-drill sergeant! I'll bet he could suck a golf ball through a garden hose while on the job!

* {{Badass}}: What the fuck else did you expect from a U.S. Marine? I was even an established drill instructor at the tender age of 21, Goddammit!

** For more anime fun with me, check out those cut-away pictures of my ''Full Metal Jacket'' character that appear in ''PaniPoniDash''! No detail spared! The animators are clearly qualified to draw my likeness, and I do not want you for even one miserable second to doubt it!

I was born in the year 1944, towards the end of World War II–and for those of you who thought it was easy to save the world back in 1918, World War I was just practice!–and served in the United States Marine Corps as a drill instructor in Nam, which was just practice for yelling at you for being the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the Goddamned common courtesy to give him a reach-around! As an actor, I got my big break playing the type of character I was famous for being in real life, when you were just a glimmer in your mother's eye, in Stanley Kubrick's ''FullMetalJacket''. Compared to me, my character was a sadistic and foul-mouthed son-of-a-bitch whose training methods ended with one maggot driven insane and the son-of-a-bitch dead at the hands of the same fucking maggot! And in case you were wondering, many of my lines were unscripted, and you have Kubrick himself to thank for it–''especially'' since he doesn't normally allow his talent to improvise as though they were on the [[ReducedShakespeareCompany Reduced Shakespeare]] comedy circuit!

* AscendedExtra: You may be too shitbrained to know this, but I wasn't Stanley Kubrick's first choice for the role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in ''FullMetalJacket''–in fact, his reason for wanting me on board was accuracy advice. But then I did a demonstration on how to portray a DrillSergeantNasty, chewing out the camera for fifteen straight minutes, through a hail of tennis balls and fucking rotten oranges, never once moving, changing my expression, or repeating myself. I ended up getting the part by yelling at Kubrick, "YOU STAND UP WHEN I TALK TO YOU!!!" Kubrick found himself doing so automatically, and the rest is history!

* ThrowItIn: I was actually lucky to be allowed to adlib a good portion of my lines in ''FullMetalJacket'', considering that Stanley Kubrick was behind the camera.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: I was only 42 at the time I worked my military magic on ''FullMetalJacket''. 20 years and one Geico commercial later... I still look the fucking same, and don't you deny it, sweetheart!

* MoreDakka: Look, ''Lock And Load'' is about ''firearms''. What the fuck do you expect? This is ''especially'' true when I do episodes on machine guns, including, the one and only, genuine, original hand-cranked Gatling gun!

** ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' did the same, but adapted my words for MagicalGirl training! Just listen to this disgustingly sweet take on my words, and you maggots will not soon forget that every language, both literal (e.g. English and Japanese) and figurative (e.g. the language of love) has its own way of getting my message through to the local unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit!