Military And Warfare Tropes
Basic Information
Military and Warfare Tropes are genre tropes that are associated with armed forces or times of armed conflict.
List of Military and Warfare Tropes
Settings:
- American Civil War
- American Revolution
- Bug War
- During The War - list, comparison, and series
- Feuding Families
- Hopeless War
- Robot War
- The War On Terror
- World War One
- World War II
Individual Character Archetypes
- Ace Pilot
- The Brigadier
- The Captain
- Child Soldiers
- Chuck Yeager
- Cold Sniper
- Colonel Badass
- Colonel Makepeace
- Cunning Linguist
- Dangerous Deserter
- Drill Sergeant Nasty
- General Ripper
- Good Looking Privates
- Glamorous Wartime Singer
- The Medic
- Military Maverick
- Modern Major General
- The Neidermeyer
- New Meat
- Officer And A Gentleman
- Sergeant Rock
- Shell Shocked Senior
- The Sniper
- Southern Fried Private
Armies and Units
- Amazon Brigade
- Battle Couple
- The Evil Army
- Planet Looters
- Private Military Contractors
- Redshirt Army
- State Sec
- The Squad
The Laws And Customs Of War
- Attack Pattern Alpha
- Custom Uniform
- Military Alphabet
- No One Gets Left Behind
- Reporting Names
- Sound Off
- The Spartan Way
- Standard Redshirt Procedure
- Strange Salute
- This Is Not A Drill
Tropes
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- DEFCON Five
- Hollywood Tactics
- Hot Sub On Sub Action
- How To Survive A War Movie
- Hyperspace Arsenal
- I Surrender Suckers
- Join The Army They Said
- Mildly Military
- Military Mashup Machine
- A Nuclear Error
- One Sided Battle
- Playing Possum
- Seizing the dung pile
- Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
- The War Room
- Wartime Cartoon
- We Have Reserves
- Zerg Rush
Regional particularities
- The Chinese Military
- Gauls With Grenades (France)
- The Ultimate Resistance (France nuclear weapons)
- Israelis With Infrared Missiles
- Nazis With Gnarly Weapons (Nazi Germany)
- Reds With Rockets (USSR)
- South Africans With Surface To Air Missiles
- Tricolours With Rusting Rockets (Russia)
- Mnogo Nukes (Russia/USSR nuclear weapons)
- The UK Armed Forces
- Ultimate Defence Of The Realm (UK nuclear weapons)
- We Are Not The Wehrmacht (modern Germany)
- Yanks With Tanks (USA)
- Peace Through Superior Firepower (US nuclear weapons)
Sources
Bibliography
Game and Story Use
- Any game centered on war or soldiers should include some of these.
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