Just remember, if something named Behemecoytal starts talking to you in your head, you may want to chalk that up as "not your friend", Thanks for watching!
Good ol Startship Troopers. Starting Ship wherever they go. Bravely shipping arachnids and brave marines. With shower scenes,dirty bug planets and camera men willing to get close to the action! XD Yes. Your typo has created this. :P
The bugs not knowing where Earth is located kind of lends credence to the fan theory that the asteroid attack in the first film was a false flag committed by the Federation to start a war. As if the bugs were responsible, why would they need to find the location of a planet they'd already attacked? It doesn't make any sense unless they were not responsible for that attack and are defending themselves.
Nice theory however it appears that the bugs are an invasive species that dominates planets to create their final evolution stage kind of like a gravemind from halo
With how officers and enlisted troops seem to drop left and right in any battle, it makes sense that Rico got to Colonel so quickly, probably not just through sheer personal skill, but to replace his fallen superiors
I’m not seeing as literally everywhere is the front line for the mobile infantry, what I find funny is the interchanging of enlisted ranks and officer ranks. Yes I’m aware that in earlier conflicts most notably WW1 you would have Sgt’s and Staff Sgt’s being promoted to Lt and the like due to the same sort of casualty rate as depicted in the movie.
Hey LT, I agree. Though, eight years might have felt like an eternity with the amount of combat operations he must have taken part in. He could have fought across the galaxy with a invading or defending a new planet each month. To even have the mental capacity he shows in this movie is insane. He should lead the Federations Special Operations Command as his ability to not die would continue to be useful.
@@dakduen7943 At least that is way better than what a lot of other people seem to do. Which is, just pretending they know everything already and being arrogant snobs while they, in reality, actually tend to create more problems for everyone else. lol
I love how the spin off TV series, Razack's Roughnecks, actually showed us how Bugs travel in space and their fuel source, along with the existence of an Empress Bug. Hardest part of a possible video would be finding all seasons in tact.
Same. I wish there was more but heard it was cut halfway through production or something like that and there was suppose to be another Season after Homefront
@@RoanokeGaming I mean it -kinda- makes sense because they got to see Carl's video on shooting the nerve stem (which in the first movie was the point where they actually started taking the bugs down relatively easily). I like to just imagine that the rest of the cannon fodder haven't gotten the extensive 5m video course.
1. There aint a civilian on that planet, the "priestess" is enlisted (as are priests in the military these day's) and the other is ranked CAPTAIN at that point as only captain rank upward knows certain secret station (or marauder programm (The real one), or that those AR's are in fact shotguns in this movie). Oh wait you ment the farmers? Nope, no civilians either, they dont realy deserve to live if their that stupid. Fed bad? Not realy, without Fed AND those executions the war would be over already 8 years ago. Plus: He gave no shit about their safety realy 2. Nope, if at all Rico and his squad get a malus out of it as they cant open up everything they got when CIVILIANS are around.
You're wrong about Federation psychics. They can't just read, they definitely can write as well. Carl is heavily implied in the first movie to have guided Rico to Carmen. Then, in Traitor of Mars (an absolutely terrible, yet nonetheless entertaining CGI movie that reunited the entire original cast), Carl communicates with a gravely injured Rico telepathically under the guise of Dizzy to motivate him to fight on. It is hilariously awkward given they even kissed.
it is also possible that the god-bug eventually starts sustaining itself off of geothermal energy, maybe with a symbiotic bacteria. This allows it to have steady energy after the surface is stripped to fuel its growth
34:25 Psychics in Starship troopers can absolutely control the thoughts and perceptions of others organisms. The first movie had Carl control both his ferret and Rico. Not like mind controlled puppets but he was able to communicate information directly to them. The information does not need to be accurate either. He can essentially give a person delusions.
I now realize that with psychic powers and the death rate of these soldiers, the Federation is beginning to look a lot like the Imperium from Warhammer 40k.
na well just need a weapon to blow their planets up killing them off then the planets will slowly pull back into planets over time by their gravity and we can inhabit those planets at that time simple
If you remember from the first Starship Troopers movie, the Federation has always been open about how their wars are going. Heck the first Sky Marshall even lost his job due to the fuckup on Klendathu. In the books, the Federation has always been extremely meritocratic, you only get ahead by proving you are the best and that you deserve the leadership position. Any mess up or lack of judgement can doom a person and end a career real quick because at higher levels that can kill many people. That is why I enjoyed the book so much, it shows the best of a meritocracy in action.
The directors of the movies only portrayed how the Federation works through Hollyweird propergrandma movies instead of doing their own research. Which is why they all acted like Hogan's Heroes baddies instead of how they really operated.
@@dansmith1661 The director of the first one outright admited to never reading reading the book, and to modeling the federation in his movie after fascistic states it wouldn't be weird for the following movies to copy that unless they do a hard reboot
@@RichyArg...Was about to reply to that effect, though a potential influence to his opinion could be from what I've read about interviews with the man, the guy who directed the first film is bound and convinced that the United States and Nazi Germany were the same entity, so... probably not the brightest spark in the forge.
@@RoanokeGaming I honestly don't think I'd have pursued biology fully if it wasn't for these videos, Roanoke! thank you for giving me solid aspirations!
@@RoanokeGaming you got me fan girling and I’m a grown man. You truly deserve all the success that comes to you man . Connected with your audience and always really delivering the content to make our week.
Got to admit, thats a terrifying collective species. Giant 1/10 the size of planet bugs collectively sharing intelligence, and controlling entire armies of insect armies. Ild love to see some doom style game with something like the bugs from the star ship troopers series.
I’m really fascinated by species of hive minds, such as tyranids, zerg, klyntar, xenomorph, flood and other rapidly evolving, hive mind species Also I’m surprised that the humans don’t get standard issue flamethrowers
another reason is they're already pretty fucked if the bugs are within flamethrower range. though, not like their efforts keep them much farther. hell, give them all explosive vests that go off as long as they're not too close to allies when they die, it'd do more than their weapons in like 95% of the officer's hands do...
xenomorphs aren't a hivemind they are a eusocial colony with minor psychic abilities. but every being is an individual and capable of independent thought.
@@fukkitful the Borg are what would be a collective gestalt consciousness. Notice how they say "we are the borg, etc." we implies that they are a number of individuals coming together to form a greater whole. where as a hivemind is a singular being over many bodies. it's a subtle difference in a group setting, but when some of the individuals are moved away from the group the borg begin to act independently again.
@@skepticalmagos_101 The numbers are probably offset a bit by Cadians, Kriegers, Vallhalans, and Vorstrian for example so he probably not wrong. Also the guard mostly deals with like orks or non-chaos uprisings so you have to account for that and how big the Imperium is. Vraks and the Fall of Cadia are probably outliers.
Starship trooper psychics can implant thoughts into the minds of others. In the beginning of the first movie Carl sends his ferret to “bug mom”. When Johnny asks how he did that Carl says “ I gave him the impression that there’s a grub on her leg. He’s on a mission to eat it.”
Yeah, but in that same scene he also explains it doesn't work on people. Just to be clear, as you can't use that scene as an example. You could use the end of the movie though, where Rico realises Carl was the reason he had that gut feeling Carmen was still alive, and down the other tunnel. Carl must've given him that vibe. Subtle, but useful.
@@0lionheart ...You contradict yourself in the space of two sentences, either you take him at his word that people can't be influenced, or you say he influenced Rico at the finale and was lying through his teeth earlier.
I just sat and watched all 3 of Roanoke's starship trooper videos, and I physically can not get out of my head on how many parallels this has to 40k. Also, I have read the book, and it's pretty clear whoever made this series didn't read about half of it.
Best way to describe what happened to the sky marshal can be summed up in a quote that a catatonic Carl says in Starship Troopers Invasion "I hacked her so she hacked me"
I'd love to see you do some videos looking at the Tyrannids from Warhammer 40k. It would be interesting to see how you look into the different bioforms and the Hive Mind
Hey Roanoke would you be interested in covering the Trolls from the 2010 movie Trollhunter? They’re pretty interesting biologically and use inspiration from classic folklore as well. They’re the coolest interpretation of trolls I’ve seen in a while.
For me, understanding came when you equated the Godbug with the Brethren Moons. They are both gigantic psychic conduits that are able to affect matter via quantum mechanics basically.
The way you end your videos is the best on TH-cam. No sarcasm intended. More creators need to just end it the video without the drawn out bullshit goodbyes. Keep doing you bro your a new favourite for me!
In terms of the main film continuity, you only have Invasion and Traitor of Mars left. Invasion at least has the Bug Queen and Jenkins's experiments with controlling the Arachnids, though Traitor of Mars has decidedly less things to analyze.
Your explanation of how the brain bug evolves into the god bug and how it affects psychic-attuned humans actually makes this movie make more sense. In case you didn't know, they made a number of comic books and an animated series as well (Traitors of Mars). Keep up the good work.
You have unlocked a memory I had of the brain bug sucking the brain from that guy. It scared the shit out of me as a kid but now that I have seen it again it's still gross XD but regardless a great video!!
You covered this nicely. However, that quantum event disruption, that needed not to happen in real-time. It could have been a plot point dropped like an ancient Vieatnameese sapper leaving a trap for a superiorly armed invader. It could have been planned easily as something to disrupt the energies allowing such FTL travel in the course of that ship. Also, the brain bug sucking out the brain to get all or at least most of the information... not such an absurd notion. The bug could have scanned the brains' physical structure, maybe gleaned the thoughts, used that to inject the little brain spike, sucked it out, then had its body patch it together just long enough to learn all it needs for the short time it could simulate it still being in its original brain box. As for their "ravaged" worlds, I still stick to my original theory... they are not actually ravaged, they are just altered to have their entire ecosystem based upon their biology... so if you kill off a bug world's bugs, you also kill off the only ecosystem it had at that point. They assimilate planets entirely... Star Trek's Borg before Star Trek's Borg were imagined. Only, instead of assimilating individuals, they are all consumed... and the planets themselves are assimilated. Those "ruined" worlds are actually just perfectly assimilated into the Bugs' expanding empire... and will only be ruined by killing them off. There are no good guys here, so don't think I'm pro-bug. I'm just saying that humans probably provoked all this and probably faked their "bug meteor" thing... it being a human meteor... to justify the war with the warmongers expecting an easy sweep-n-clear of indigenous life on alien planets that humans can survive on or at least terraform. The bugs probably had less provocative and far better long-game plans before being provoked. For that species to have developed to that level, if mere evolution was involved, they might be one of the first life forms to evolve in the universe one of the first worlds that could support life like ours. Otherwise, they could have been biologically engineered by one of the first species to discover star travel with the blowback being them becoming like we fear AI could become ("the singularity").
The psychics in the SST universe can put information into other's minds. In the first movie Carl makes his ferret think there's a grub crawling up his mother's leg and later in the movie he projects the thought that Carmin is still alive into Johnny's head and leads his break away squad directly to her by showing him the exact path to take to get to her. I would say Carl is a particularly powerful psychic but they can influence other minds. That's my only gripe about this video. Your content is wonderful just so you know!
Johnny is a vessel of human psychic energy, it's the only energy he can process and it enhances his ability? There would most likely be others like him as well.
There is something to that. In the latest movie in the movie continuity, while Johnny can't directly understand Jenkins's psychic projections, he can understand them when Jenkins uses Dizzy as an avatar. Meanwhile, Carmen can very directly speak and understand Jenkins. Apparently, while receptive to it, Johnny is a bit stubborn and unable to fully process this psychic communication compared to Carmen.
@@GunlessSnake I don't recall a lot of that movie, and this is the third time i've attempted to write this so im probably not going to coment again for a while. insert clever idea here.... ugh...
Fun fact: The reason that they are called clicks is because the name refers to old odometers that made an audible click that it made when one kilometer was travelled in a car.
What I always wonder is how these bugs survive on these planets with literally nothing else. No plants no animal, what do they eat sand? And how does a species evolve to have such diversity within the species. Also how is it they are seemingly able to direct their own evolution, as we see new kinds of bugs as they adapt to fighting people. Like The new brain replacing bugs in 2. I'd be interested to hear about those things in your next troopers video.
Given how many there are and their brutal nature, I bet they cannibalize each other all the time, as for directing their evolution, if there is more than one god bug that is as smart as they are made out to be then they could certain bugs to mate again and again until it reaches the desired affect
The Mongoose Publishing ttrpg makes mention of fungus farms inside their tunnel systems, which are tended to by workers (similar to the chariot bugs from the first film), and upper castes can instruct a nurse caste to "program" eggs, by the same justification as the Zerg or the Tyranids. The more you know!
I wouldn't be surprised if the God Bug and brain bug are a lot like a Gravemind or Keymind from halo. Perhaps each God bug, using some sort of very powerful electro magnetic wave, could just have some sort of shared consciousness. Even more like the flood from halo, when there is a Brain Bug/ God bug on a planet, the warrior bugs become way smarter and are able to use actual tactics. I would love to see a revisit to the flood breaking down their strange neural abilities!
To be fair. The God Bug is like the overall leader of the Arachnids as a whole. It isn't even known if there are MORE God Bugs. Brain Bugs? I wouldn't be surprised if they're basically either young, infant God bugs, *or just the God Bug's offshoot of itself*
@@dj11o9er I think brain bugs r more like generals to the overall leader being the god bug. Generals being very important and in the field w the troops. I don’t think the hundreds of brain bugs r all young god bugs.
Thank you SO SO much for a followup from your previous video on starship troopers, have ben anticipating this one for a long time. Keep up your good work!
I think this could also shed light on why Humanity is more technologically advanced than the Arachnids. Since the nature of the bugs caused them to eradicate all life, and therefore competition, on planets while establishing a Hive Mind: there was no need to technologically advance. As opposed to Humans who, being individually independent, needed to technologically advance in order to compete with other individuals. That seems to be a recurring theme in nature: competition creates evolutionary pressures to advance species. If there is no competition: species will more or less stagnate until a new force comes in (and typically wipes out the natives). This can be seen not only between humans but ecosystems in general.
the federations tactics were intentionally to throw meat at the grinder. thats why the mobile infantry is always needing more recruits for the grinder lol. its all one big satire of a facist totalitarian nation, something focused on in far more depth in the novel.
@@azrasashima3733 the novel has a more... libertarian govt if i remember right in terms of policy outside the actual govt, i may be mis remembering its been awhile
Yeah, it's totally like Game of Thrones and not y'know, WWI trench warfare or WWII Red Army human wave tactics. Fuck man people need to read a history book once in a while
Just to add: in my opinion, the Brain Bug its a larvae stage, while the God Bug was the Pupa Stage. The mature stage of that bug lineage its something able to cross the interspace and set on a new planet, starting a new colony, like the legionary ant.
Ah yes, the Sci Fi channel before it become the Syfy channel. It was how I got introduced to so many weird and wonderful movies. Also.....yea the mechs are supposed to actually be power suits (think non flying Iron Man/War Machine) and they should have been in the first movie. They ARE common in the books, they just didnt have the tech or budget for the movie so they didnt add them into them til now. The animated movie uses them a lot better as well xD
And in the books, the mechs are amazingly bad ass. Able to jump and glide for miles while simultaneously scanning a huge area and firing off RPGs with miniaturized nukes in them.
Well, it wasn't so much lack of budget or technology or such, at least for the first original, and most well known, Starship Troopers movie, so much as the director disliking the novel and deciding to make the film a deliberate steaming hot shit on the novel via making it a satire.
Oof dig the puns and references man 😂,the shovel was great tool. This franchise is hard to judge if it's satire comedy of military complex of any country or just built that way.since religion and war does work in the way the movie portrayed in certain societies.
So I just found out about your channel about a week ago…. I’ve been binge watching every video since then. Your definitely one of my favorite channels now
The best thing about this movie is the trigger discipline on those force multipliers Stay strapped or get clapped Roanyoked I am also always fully invested in your “ramblings” and it’s mainly for the random facts I gather. The other bits are for your awesome jokes like saying our brains running off 2008 CoD lobby levels of salt would give us seizures
I want a starship troopers game so bad. Would be cool to have like a 3rd person squad based shooter with a mode reminiscent of the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer
There was a Starship Troopers FPS that came out in 2005. Was pretty awesome at the time, you played as like a commando in an armoured exo suit called a Marauder, it featured missions that were roughly parallel to the 1997 movie, Badlands, outpost etc
you truly are the new generation of pop culture science youtuber. i'm learning a lot about biology through fictional examples, and it's the best thing ever. you're basically doing the job game theory stopped doing, and i think it's amazing ! fucking great content right there
I feel like these movies are basically a more interesting version of the EDF games, and I'm surprised the dev's haven't approached the studio about creating a game at this point! xD
@@RoanokeGaming DUDE. You should totally look into the Earth Defence Force (EDF) series of games. Its all about giant aliens attacking earth. Everything from giant bugs to humanoid robots to giant frog people.
I just rewatched the 1st 2 parts of this series today, so I am very happy that the 3rd part just uploaded!! Thanks for your observations, great content!!
I’m sure psychics can put thoughts in people at the beginning of the first move the psychic guy puts a thought in his pet and later on the end it’s implied he does the same to Rico so he can find the girl
Hey Roanoake! Great vid, you mentioned the old school sci-fi channel during this vid and it reminded me of an old series that was on Sci-Fi for awhile, it was called Helix I believe and it was about a parasite and a research facility, cannot remember the plot for the life of me but if you’ve seen it I’d love to see it covered on here!
34:25 Actually Karl was working on putting thoughts into peoples' heads early on in the first movie. He was already able to push thoughts into his Ferrett, Cyrano.
Hey Roanoke, would you be willing to do a study on the Tyrranid species from Warhammer 40k? They are nightmare fuel made real but the biology side to me is a mystery. Love the video and thanks for making them!
Interestingly enough in Roughnecks chronicles, they have plenty of mechs. Also, you'd think plenty of humans know where Earth is, not just high ranking officers.
The idea about telepathy is a cool one but the argument with birds is completely wrong. It's pretty simple to code a system of particles that behaves almost exactly in this way. Sure these flocks look extremely well organized but all the birds are just following very simple rules. That's the beauty of multiagent systems and swarms.
Hopefully Roanoke might do some videos about the other bugs from that old Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles show. Especially those asteroid sized Ice Bugs in one of those episodes if they are related to the God Bug.
The reason why the "authoritarian government" only acts half the time like an authoritarian government and in the first movie not at all, is because the makers of these movies couldn't decide if they wanted to follow the original book version or make a political parody based on Paul Verhoevens misunderstanding of the original book.
I absolutely adore your videos! Definetely one of the best ever! I usually have to change funny videos with educative videos over time because there werent videos with both at the same time.. until i found yours.. 11/10 mindblowingly good
As I was internally shaking my head at the movies convoluted plot, you mentioned "Like I said man; this movie is a ride and a half!" I burst out laughing 🤣🤦♂️💯
I think you Roanoke severly misunderstands how the federation works in that setup - They cant force you into a meat grinder - you have to volunter for service first (there was no compulsory draft) and you can leave that service almost at any time (but that would have a price tag as it would mean forfeitting anything you were to gain from completening the service). That said they were prone to serious miscalculations that later on did lead to masacres - but it wasnt like they knew it will be a masacre and told you to go anyway. (aka deliberately trying to get you killed). If anything they were fairly often underestimating the enemy but that's it. Authoritartian federation wouldnt allow the colonist to set on bug planets - instead they warned them that it was probably suicidal but even then they didnt stop the colonist from actually coming there anyway. Meaning the freedoms were highly upheld and the militatry didnt encrouch on civilan rights - and that aint how authoritarian govs work in reality. in a truly authoritarian rule if the gov says jump - you ask how high and in that universe a civi could easly say to them to bug off (pun intended) and he was free to do so. That said if you did join the military you were expected to follow orders in a very strict manner - so it could get harsh or brutal but still you could resign and leave without any repercussions but as long as you were in the military the dissent within the ranks would NOT be tolerated and was often brutaly supressed - especialy under combat conditions. For eg a truly authoritarian rule would not spill the beans about the masacres but they would hush them via censroship instead what we saw was nearly full access of the press both even to the battlefields themselves and later on full disclosures and taking responisiblity for failures - another thing very anathematical to a true authoritarian rule. That said the writter of the third movie seemed to completely ignore most of this and still went deliberately to show the miliatary to be something they were not. But hey - creative freedom i guess. Especially when they linked military with faith and showed the military as overbearing on the civlians. On top of that many aspects of that movies were made deliberately to be silly (for comedic purposes) like that new advanced weapon - a shovel :P Or that a Marshall of the entire army was also a "pop" star xD
They can do so much with this franchise.I only wish they get some help to decide the future of it..The latest animated movie was probably my second favorite.The humans and bugs have so much they still need to learn from each other.
Notice how their uniforms are grey or black with an eagle on their chest, and the soldiers fight in trenches with grey uniforms, and they kill anyone who disagrees with them. It’s almost like a certain group that’s name rhymes with Yahtzee.
in the beginning of the first movie it's explained that telepaths or whatever it's called can actually send thoughts and images to others as well as just influence them in general. when Carl and Rico are doing the card test at Carl's house
Just remember, if something named Behemecoytal starts talking to you in your head, you may want to chalk that up as "not your friend", Thanks for watching!
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Good ol Startship Troopers. Starting Ship wherever they go. Bravely shipping arachnids and brave marines. With shower scenes,dirty bug planets and camera men willing to get close to the action! XD
Yes. Your typo has created this. :P
The Bugs deserve to evolve!!
S tier advice lol
The bugs not knowing where Earth is located kind of lends credence to the fan theory that the asteroid attack in the first film was a false flag committed by the Federation to start a war. As if the bugs were responsible, why would they need to find the location of a planet they'd already attacked? It doesn't make any sense unless they were not responsible for that attack and are defending themselves.
oh damn...
@@NuclearSpring
When you're writing is so shit that it becomes genuis
it could be a really old meteor used for colonization
Nice theory however it appears that the bugs are an invasive species that dominates planets to create their final evolution stage kind of like a gravemind from halo
@@dirpyturtle69 nah, it hit earth, it just landed in Buenos Aires and completely destroyed the city.
With how officers and enlisted troops seem to drop left and right in any battle, it makes sense that Rico got to Colonel so quickly, probably not just through sheer personal skill, but to replace his fallen superiors
he's still alive after 8 fucking years.
he might as well be the messiah.
I’m not seeing as literally everywhere is the front line for the mobile infantry, what I find funny is the interchanging of enlisted ranks and officer ranks. Yes I’m aware that in earlier conflicts most notably WW1 you would have Sgt’s and Staff Sgt’s being promoted to Lt and the like due to the same sort of casualty rate as depicted in the movie.
They probably shouldn’t deploy colonels as ground troops then lol
"You've been promoted!"
*Oh shit the other guy died and now I'm next in line to get killed by murderbugs, aren't I?*
Hey LT,
I agree. Though, eight years might have felt like an eternity with the amount of combat operations he must have taken part in. He could have fought across the galaxy with a invading or defending a new planet each month. To even have the mental capacity he shows in this movie is insane. He should lead the Federations Special Operations Command as his ability to not die would continue to be useful.
Roanoke saying “well you’re smart” made me feel way too good. This man truly believes in his fans absorbing this knowledge
A true chad indeed 💯🔥
And I try my best to absorb the knowledge... my best isn't very good, but that's a conversation for another day
@@dakduen7943 *it ain't much, but it's honest work, eh?*
@@dakduen7943 At least that is way better than what a lot of other people seem to do. Which is, just pretending they know everything already and being arrogant snobs while they, in reality, actually tend to create more problems for everyone else. lol
@@zacksilverstone7642 eh
I love how the spin off TV series, Razack's Roughnecks, actually showed us how Bugs travel in space and their fuel source, along with the existence of an Empress Bug. Hardest part of a possible video would be finding all seasons in tact.
That series was part of my childhood ngl
Same. I wish there was more but heard it was cut halfway through production or something like that and there was suppose to be another Season after Homefront
That show was awesome! Shield surfing from bombadier bugs was cool
I found some episodes from an animated Starship Troopers on here. A full Playlist.
Johnny's squad is maxed out on weapons proficiency and damage and when they're protecting civilians they get a +20 bonus to damage.
its all coming together now, thank you for clearing that up rofl
They have fixed dice that roll Nat 20's.
Damn shame they made general intelligence their dump stat whenever Johnny isn't around to lead them xD
@@RoanokeGaming I mean it -kinda- makes sense because they got to see Carl's video on shooting the nerve stem (which in the first movie was the point where they actually started taking the bugs down relatively easily). I like to just imagine that the rest of the cannon fodder haven't gotten the extensive 5m video course.
1. There aint a civilian on that planet, the "priestess" is enlisted (as are priests in the military these day's) and the other is ranked CAPTAIN at that point as only captain rank upward knows certain secret station (or marauder programm (The real one), or that those AR's are in fact shotguns in this movie). Oh wait you ment the farmers? Nope, no civilians either, they dont realy deserve to live if their that stupid. Fed bad? Not realy, without Fed AND those executions the war would be over already 8 years ago. Plus: He gave no shit about their safety realy
2. Nope, if at all Rico and his squad get a malus out of it as they cant open up everything they got when CIVILIANS are around.
You're wrong about Federation psychics. They can't just read, they definitely can write as well. Carl is heavily implied in the first movie to have guided Rico to Carmen. Then, in Traitor of Mars (an absolutely terrible, yet nonetheless entertaining CGI movie that reunited the entire original cast), Carl communicates with a gravely injured Rico telepathically under the guise of Dizzy to motivate him to fight on. It is hilariously awkward given they even kissed.
Carl had his chance and he took it
@@saisomsphet3251 That's what heroes do.
Idk bout you but I actually enjoyed Invasion and Traitor of Mars.
@@dj11o9er It's hysterically funny and has decent action. I definitely enjoyed it.
Hey, I liked traitor of mars…
it is also possible that the god-bug eventually starts sustaining itself off of geothermal energy, maybe with a symbiotic bacteria. This allows it to have steady energy after the surface is stripped to fuel its growth
na why would it when human brains are so yummy?🤪🤪
34:25 Psychics in Starship troopers can absolutely control the thoughts and perceptions of others organisms. The first movie had Carl control both his ferret and Rico. Not like mind controlled puppets but he was able to communicate information directly to them. The information does not need to be accurate either. He can essentially give a person delusions.
I now realize that with psychic powers and the death rate of these soldiers, the Federation is beginning to look a lot like the Imperium from Warhammer 40k.
@@drvurruct2274 Hah!
The Japanese movies had Carl control people from basically any distance. Distance didn't matter in those CGI movies.
@@dansmith1661 there were japanese starship troopers movies?
@@GuyWithAGreatsword two as far as I know :invasion witch i don't remember anything of, and traitors of mars witch was a good popcorn flick
"In order to fight the bug, we must somehow understand the bug", crazy that the bugs actually took this to heart.
na well just need a weapon to blow their planets up killing them off then the planets will slowly pull back into planets over time by their gravity and we can inhabit those planets at that time simple
If you ever do one on Traitor of Mars, you have to have the line:
"They can give you a traffic ticket from space, but they missed this?"
I love that movie lol
The federation really loves fabricating casus belli.
When the Q-Bomb goes offline when Amy Snapp turns the detonator and passes out 😂
If you remember from the first Starship Troopers movie, the Federation has always been open about how their wars are going. Heck the first Sky Marshall even lost his job due to the fuckup on Klendathu. In the books, the Federation has always been extremely meritocratic, you only get ahead by proving you are the best and that you deserve the leadership position. Any mess up or lack of judgement can doom a person and end a career real quick because at higher levels that can kill many people. That is why I enjoyed the book so much, it shows the best of a meritocracy in action.
The directors of the movies only portrayed how the Federation works through Hollyweird propergrandma movies instead of doing their own research. Which is why they all acted like Hogan's Heroes baddies instead of how they really operated.
@@dansmith1661 The director of the first one outright admited to never reading reading the book, and to modeling the federation in his movie after fascistic states
it wouldn't be weird for the following movies to copy that unless they do a hard reboot
@@RichyArg...Was about to reply to that effect, though a potential influence to his opinion could be from what I've read about interviews with the man, the guy who directed the first film is bound and convinced that the United States and Nazi Germany were the same entity, so... probably not the brightest spark in the forge.
I also gotta say this man pulled me through quarantine . Keep up the amazing work and keep inspiring future scientists
Always hope to and glad to help!
@@RoanokeGaming I honestly don't think I'd have pursued biology fully if it wasn't for these videos, Roanoke! thank you for giving me solid aspirations!
@@RoanokeGaming you got me fan girling and I’m a grown man. You truly deserve all the success that comes to you man . Connected with your audience and always really delivering the content to make our week.
I'm watching this while having Covid 🤗... ROADHOUSE.
Gets me through work everyday
Got to admit, thats a terrifying collective species. Giant 1/10 the size of planet bugs collectively sharing intelligence, and controlling entire armies of insect armies.
Ild love to see some doom style game with something like the bugs from the star ship troopers series.
Not as fast pace as doom but you ever heard of earth defence force?
@@kaheichan6228 EDF! EDF! EDF! EDF!
This guy is gonna love helldivers
I always thought of these movies as adaptations of Star Craft games
I watched every Starship Troopers movie and 3 was the oddest out of all of them, I won't lie though the Sky Marshal had some pipes on him 😂
it's *START SHIP TROOPERS*
I hate how catchy the song was lol
@@ADogNamedStay Nonono thats just the game. xxD
@@RoanokeGaming "It's a good day to die, when you know the reasons why, citizens we fight for what is right." 😂
@@RoanokeGaming it's ok I got a screenshot. You can have it for your memories if you ever need a good laugh when looking back
I’m really fascinated by species of hive minds, such as tyranids, zerg, klyntar, xenomorph, flood and other rapidly evolving, hive mind species
Also I’m surprised that the humans don’t get standard issue flamethrowers
Not enough OIL to go around. And gas tank are too expensive.
another reason is they're already pretty fucked if the bugs are within flamethrower range.
though, not like their efforts keep them much farther. hell, give them all explosive vests that go off as long as they're not too close to allies when they die, it'd do more than their weapons in like 95% of the officer's hands do...
xenomorphs aren't a hivemind they are a eusocial colony with minor psychic abilities. but every being is an individual and capable of independent thought.
What about the Borg?
@@fukkitful the Borg are what would be a collective gestalt consciousness. Notice how they say "we are the borg, etc." we implies that they are a number of individuals coming together to form a greater whole. where as a hivemind is a singular being over many bodies. it's a subtle difference in a group setting, but when some of the individuals are moved away from the group the borg begin to act independently again.
The survival chance of a average Federation soldier is about as long as a clone trooper on Geonosis.
Only in the movies. The Mobile Infantry of the book are damn near godlike.
I would even say that a Guardsman from Imperial Guard has a higher survival chance than to a Federation soldier. For them, it's just another Tuesday.
@@proof036 Uummmm.......
@@skepticalmagos_101 Listen, I said that it's higher, but not how much higher.
@@skepticalmagos_101 The numbers are probably offset a bit by Cadians, Kriegers, Vallhalans, and Vorstrian for example so he probably not wrong. Also the guard mostly deals with like orks or non-chaos uprisings so you have to account for that and how big the Imperium is. Vraks and the Fall of Cadia are probably outliers.
This has been a great assessment for the benefit for the Federation and DEMOCRACY.
Can we just respect that Its Not A Spoon has been supporting this channel for THREE years! Mad respect to that person
Starship trooper psychics can implant thoughts into the minds of others. In the beginning of the first movie Carl sends his ferret to “bug mom”. When Johnny asks how he did that Carl says “ I gave him the impression that there’s a grub on her leg. He’s on a mission to eat it.”
Yeah, but in that same scene he also explains it doesn't work on people. Just to be clear, as you can't use that scene as an example. You could use the end of the movie though, where Rico realises Carl was the reason he had that gut feeling Carmen was still alive, and down the other tunnel. Carl must've given him that vibe. Subtle, but useful.
@@0lionheart ...You contradict yourself in the space of two sentences, either you take him at his word that people can't be influenced, or you say he influenced Rico at the finale and was lying through his teeth earlier.
@@0lionheart
Carl says he can’t do people… yet. The clear message there is he will be able to do so with people in the future.
Rewatched the first video about star ship troopers yesterday and been hoping for an update. Thanks Roanoke!
hope you enjoyed it brother!
I just sat and watched all 3 of Roanoke's starship trooper videos, and I physically can not get out of my head on how many parallels this has to 40k. Also, I have read the book, and it's pretty clear whoever made this series didn't read about half of it.
Best way to describe what happened to the sky marshal can be summed up in a quote that a catatonic Carl says in Starship Troopers Invasion
"I hacked her so she hacked me"
I'd love to see you do some videos looking at the Tyrannids from Warhammer 40k. It would be interesting to see how you look into the different bioforms and the Hive Mind
Hey Roanoke would you be interested in covering the Trolls from the 2010 movie Trollhunter? They’re pretty interesting biologically and use inspiration from classic folklore as well. They’re the coolest interpretation of trolls I’ve seen in a while.
I totally second this
th-cam.com/video/wvvijwMHE7A/w-d-xo.html
I third
He finally did that one about 5 months ago
For me, understanding came when you equated the Godbug with the Brethren Moons. They are both gigantic psychic conduits that are able to affect matter via quantum mechanics basically.
The Cathulu religion plot line seems really cool. It’s nice when stories build that element of their world.
The way you end your videos is the best on TH-cam. No sarcasm intended. More creators need to just end it the video without the drawn out bullshit goodbyes. Keep doing you bro your a new favourite for me!
In terms of the main film continuity, you only have Invasion and Traitor of Mars left. Invasion at least has the Bug Queen and Jenkins's experiments with controlling the Arachnids, though Traitor of Mars has decidedly less things to analyze.
Your explanation of how the brain bug evolves into the god bug and how it affects psychic-attuned humans actually makes this movie make more sense. In case you didn't know, they made a number of comic books and an animated series as well (Traitors of Mars). Keep up the good work.
You have unlocked a memory I had of the brain bug sucking the brain from that guy. It scared the shit out of me as a kid but now that I have seen it again it's still gross XD but regardless a great video!!
Roanoke Gaming: Explaining how a brain works
My brain: Fuckin'... What?
Biology is just a group of cells learning about other cells and itself. Its the most trippy thing tbh
I love it when the Ship Troopers are started!
its the best lmfao
Starship Troopers is a series that I'd love see come back
Man.... Start Ship Troopers is so fun....
Made in remembrance before it is fixed...
Ive never seen this phrase before in my life ;)
You covered this nicely. However, that quantum event disruption, that needed not to happen in real-time. It could have been a plot point dropped like an ancient Vieatnameese sapper leaving a trap for a superiorly armed invader. It could have been planned easily as something to disrupt the energies allowing such FTL travel in the course of that ship. Also, the brain bug sucking out the brain to get all or at least most of the information... not such an absurd notion. The bug could have scanned the brains' physical structure, maybe gleaned the thoughts, used that to inject the little brain spike, sucked it out, then had its body patch it together just long enough to learn all it needs for the short time it could simulate it still being in its original brain box. As for their "ravaged" worlds, I still stick to my original theory... they are not actually ravaged, they are just altered to have their entire ecosystem based upon their biology... so if you kill off a bug world's bugs, you also kill off the only ecosystem it had at that point. They assimilate planets entirely... Star Trek's Borg before Star Trek's Borg were imagined. Only, instead of assimilating individuals, they are all consumed... and the planets themselves are assimilated. Those "ruined" worlds are actually just perfectly assimilated into the Bugs' expanding empire... and will only be ruined by killing them off.
There are no good guys here, so don't think I'm pro-bug. I'm just saying that humans probably provoked all this and probably faked their "bug meteor" thing... it being a human meteor... to justify the war with the warmongers expecting an easy sweep-n-clear of indigenous life on alien planets that humans can survive on or at least terraform. The bugs probably had less provocative and far better long-game plans before being provoked. For that species to have developed to that level, if mere evolution was involved, they might be one of the first life forms to evolve in the universe one of the first worlds that could support life like ours. Otherwise, they could have been biologically engineered by one of the first species to discover star travel with the blowback being them becoming like we fear AI could become ("the singularity").
Finally! More Start Ship Troopers!
Hope you enjoyed it man!
@@RoanokeGaming As per usual. Hope TH-cam treats you well
The psychics in the SST universe can put information into other's minds. In the first movie Carl makes his ferret think there's a grub crawling up his mother's leg and later in the movie he projects the thought that Carmin is still alive into Johnny's head and leads his break away squad directly to her by showing him the exact path to take to get to her.
I would say Carl is a particularly powerful psychic but they can influence other minds. That's my only gripe about this video. Your content is wonderful just so you know!
Johnny is a vessel of human psychic energy, it's the only energy he can process and it enhances his ability? There would most likely be others like him as well.
There is something to that. In the latest movie in the movie continuity, while Johnny can't directly understand Jenkins's psychic projections, he can understand them when Jenkins uses Dizzy as an avatar. Meanwhile, Carmen can very directly speak and understand Jenkins. Apparently, while receptive to it, Johnny is a bit stubborn and unable to fully process this psychic communication compared to Carmen.
@@GunlessSnake I don't recall a lot of that movie, and this is the third time i've attempted to write this so im probably not going to coment again for a while. insert clever idea here.... ugh...
In canon, there is a powerful type of psychic called a lucky man. Johnny fits almost every qualification for it.
Fun fact: The reason that they are called clicks is because the name refers to old odometers that made an audible click that it made when one kilometer was travelled in a car.
You learn something new everyday.
Such an Unforgettable Creature!
Always loved this chitinous blob~🖤
more so when its getting blasted with a qbomb from space
@@RoanokeGaming Nooooooo!!
Poor fella! 😭
Which President did you mean, you're going to have to narrow it down...
@@rosiehawtrey ?
What I always wonder is how these bugs survive on these planets with literally nothing else. No plants no animal, what do they eat sand? And how does a species evolve to have such diversity within the species. Also how is it they are seemingly able to direct their own evolution, as we see new kinds of bugs as they adapt to fighting people. Like The new brain replacing bugs in 2. I'd be interested to hear about those things in your next troopers video.
Given how many there are and their brutal nature, I bet they cannibalize each other all the time, as for directing their evolution, if there is more than one god bug that is as smart as they are made out to be then they could certain bugs to mate again and again until it reaches the desired affect
The Mongoose Publishing ttrpg makes mention of fungus farms inside their tunnel systems, which are tended to by workers (similar to the chariot bugs from the first film), and upper castes can instruct a nurse caste to "program" eggs, by the same justification as the Zerg or the Tyranids. The more you know!
I wouldn't be surprised if the God Bug and brain bug are a lot like a Gravemind or Keymind from halo. Perhaps each God bug, using some sort of very powerful electro magnetic wave, could just have some sort of shared consciousness.
Even more like the flood from halo, when there is a Brain Bug/ God bug on a planet, the warrior bugs become way smarter and are able to use actual tactics. I would love to see a revisit to the flood breaking down their strange neural abilities!
I second this, with the Zerg included.
Flood, Zerg, Arachnids, this trio seems to all work on hiveminds operating inside the slipspace
To be fair. The God Bug is like the overall leader of the Arachnids as a whole. It isn't even known if there are MORE God Bugs. Brain Bugs? I wouldn't be surprised if they're basically either young, infant God bugs, *or just the God Bug's offshoot of itself*
@@dj11o9er or even just future replacements if the god bug is killed
@@KA-zv3yt they definitely look alike with their multiple eyes and coochie mouths
@@dj11o9er I think brain bugs r more like generals to the overall leader being the god bug. Generals being very important and in the field w the troops. I don’t think the hundreds of brain bugs r all young god bugs.
That brain-sucking scene will forever be etched into my memory.
Been waiting for the God Bug for a while. Haha
But have enjoyed all the other ones. 👍
Thanks for watching brother!
Thank you SO SO much for a followup from your previous video on starship troopers, have ben anticipating this one for a long time. Keep up your good work!
always love how excited you get getting into the chemistry/biology/physics of it all
I think this could also shed light on why Humanity is more technologically advanced than the Arachnids. Since the nature of the bugs caused them to eradicate all life, and therefore competition, on planets while establishing a Hive Mind: there was no need to technologically advance. As opposed to Humans who, being individually independent, needed to technologically advance in order to compete with other individuals.
That seems to be a recurring theme in nature: competition creates evolutionary pressures to advance species. If there is no competition: species will more or less stagnate until a new force comes in (and typically wipes out the natives). This can be seen not only between humans but ecosystems in general.
The battle tactics against the bugs in all the movies are as bad as The Battle of Winterfell during The Long Night
the federations tactics were intentionally to throw meat at the grinder.
thats why the mobile infantry is always needing more recruits for the grinder lol.
its all one big satire of a facist totalitarian nation, something focused on in far more depth in the novel.
@@azrasashima3733 the novel has a more... libertarian govt if i remember right in terms of policy outside the actual govt, i may be mis remembering its been awhile
@@azrasashima3733 Or just any commie nation.
Yeah, it's totally like Game of Thrones and not y'know, WWI trench warfare or WWII Red Army human wave tactics. Fuck man people need to read a history book once in a while
Just to add: in my opinion, the Brain Bug its a larvae stage, while the God Bug was the Pupa Stage. The mature stage of that bug lineage its something able to cross the interspace and set on a new planet, starting a new colony, like the legionary ant.
Ah yes, the Sci Fi channel before it become the Syfy channel. It was how I got introduced to so many weird and wonderful movies.
Also.....yea the mechs are supposed to actually be power suits (think non flying Iron Man/War Machine) and they should have been in the first movie. They ARE common in the books, they just didnt have the tech or budget for the movie so they didnt add them into them til now. The animated movie uses them a lot better as well xD
And in the books, the mechs are amazingly bad ass. Able to jump and glide for miles while simultaneously scanning a huge area and firing off RPGs with miniaturized nukes in them.
Well, it wasn't so much lack of budget or technology or such, at least for the first original, and most well known, Starship Troopers movie, so much as the director disliking the novel and deciding to make the film a deliberate steaming hot shit on the novel via making it a satire.
Sky Marshall "Those aren't rocks, those are the bones of God"
Roanoke "So anyways, about these rocks"
Oof dig the puns and references man 😂,the shovel was great tool.
This franchise is hard to judge if it's satire comedy of military complex of any country or just built that way.since religion and war does work in the way the movie portrayed in certain societies.
Good news is it is a satire comedy. However they're also Gorey enough to be classics
So I just found out about your channel about a week ago…. I’ve been binge watching every video since then. Your definitely one of my favorite channels now
Now that you've talked a lot about psychic ability, you really need to look into the emperor of mankind from Warhammer 40K
'NIDS!!!!!!!!!!!
is it just me or did those mechs look strangely similar to a warhound titan?
That is a HUGE can of worms he doesn’t have the time for
@@relyt2529 the Marauder mechs honestly didn't even look close to any Titan in 40k. Just a boxy robot with gun arms and all
Your talk on how neurons fire was basically some Eldritch being whispering in my ear. I went crazy because I couldn’t comprehend it.
It only took him about half a year to get to the brain bug but he remembered
I’m proud of him
The best thing about this movie is the trigger discipline on those force multipliers
Stay strapped or get clapped Roanyoked
I am also always fully invested in your “ramblings” and it’s mainly for the random facts I gather. The other bits are for your awesome jokes like saying our brains running off 2008 CoD lobby levels of salt would give us seizures
I want a starship troopers game so bad. Would be cool to have like a 3rd person squad based shooter with a mode reminiscent of the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer
Theres a starship troopers RTS releasing march 2022 that looks pretty good
Theres alsp the Earth Defense Force games
as Fingleberrys said EDF has what you want
but Space Marine 2 is comeing out soonish and you fight tyranids
so pretty much starship troopers
There was a Starship Troopers FPS that came out in 2005. Was pretty awesome at the time, you played as like a commando in an armoured exo suit called a Marauder, it featured missions that were roughly parallel to the 1997 movie, Badlands, outpost etc
EDF!
you truly are the new generation of pop culture science youtuber. i'm learning a lot about biology through fictional examples, and it's the best thing ever. you're basically doing the job game theory stopped doing, and i think it's amazing ! fucking great content right there
Casper Van Dien’s anatomy is honestly the best part of this movie.
Thank you sir!!! I've been waiting for this since the DAY you posted the last video in this series.
Ahh the shovel, relates to another video that came out today so amazing. Also, the mechs in this work like Titans in 40k, neat.
the 40k mechs have better graphics XD
The shovel is the finest weapon for killing heretics
@@invaderHUNK 'Happy gas-mask noises' 👍🏻
"Sorry boss, can't come in today, i've caught Religion."
Revisiting these thanks to Helldivers 2.
I've been waiting too long for a new starship trooper video, thank you for blessing this day 😆
When the troopers are leaving the pod after the crash you can see grass, so maybe it only strips the planet in a radius around the god bug.
"OG Sci-Fi channel was something to behold and it will be sorely missed" Oh oh i whole heartily agree.
I feel like these movies are basically a more interesting version of the EDF games, and I'm surprised the dev's haven't approached the studio about creating a game at this point! xD
EDF?
@@RoanokeGaming think it stands for Earth Defence Force, reminds me of the bad guys in the Rad faction games tho, not star ship troopers
@@RoanokeGaming DUDE. You should totally look into the Earth Defence Force (EDF) series of games. Its all about giant aliens attacking earth. Everything from giant bugs to humanoid robots to giant frog people.
"I am actively using your salts and ATP at this moment" is my new favourite quote
The general should have known that killing a local would only make the battle impossible for the troops.
I just rewatched the 1st 2 parts of this series today, so I am very happy that the 3rd part just uploaded!! Thanks for your observations, great content!!
I’m sure psychics can put thoughts in people at the beginning of the first move the psychic guy puts a thought in his pet and later on the end it’s implied he does the same to Rico so he can find the girl
Watching this, I have a suspicion of where the Helldivers 2 lore might go.
Hey Roanoake! Great vid, you mentioned the old school sci-fi channel during this vid and it reminded me of an old series that was on Sci-Fi for awhile, it was called Helix I believe and it was about a parasite and a research facility, cannot remember the plot for the life of me but if you’ve seen it I’d love to see it covered on here!
34:25 Actually Karl was working on putting thoughts into peoples' heads early on in the first movie. He was already able to push thoughts into his Ferrett, Cyrano.
Hey Roanoke, would you be willing to do a study on the Tyrranid species from Warhammer 40k? They are nightmare fuel made real but the biology side to me is a mystery. Love the video and thanks for making them!
I would love to see a video on Tyranids like this.
Interestingly enough in Roughnecks chronicles, they have plenty of mechs. Also, you'd think plenty of humans know where Earth is, not just high ranking officers.
tbf… the anatomy of Casper Van Dien is a big part of my love for these movies
The idea about telepathy is a cool one but the argument with birds is completely wrong. It's pretty simple to code a system of particles that behaves almost exactly in this way. Sure these flocks look extremely well organized but all the birds are just following very simple rules.
That's the beauty of multiagent systems and swarms.
Hell yes more Starship Troopers on RoanokeeGaming. Been waiting to know more.
hey roanoke, you ever heard of the movie "the relic"?
it would be really dope to hear your analysis of the creature in that movie...
Hopefully Roanoke might do some videos about the other bugs from that old Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles show. Especially those asteroid sized Ice Bugs in one of those episodes if they are related to the God Bug.
Why are they having such a hard time, bug spray already exists
And you know what also already exists? Nukes! They don't have to live on that planet, right? So just nuke the hell out of those bugs.
Drop some raid on that planet!
@@RoanokeGaming Novichok™, it's the only way to be sure..
"Nonfreedom units" I love it.
The reason why the "authoritarian government" only acts half the time like an authoritarian government and in the first movie not at all, is because the makers of these movies couldn't decide if they wanted to follow the original book version or make a political parody based on Paul Verhoevens misunderstanding of the original book.
Yep and paul failed to “show” the dangers of Fascism.
I absolutely adore your videos! Definetely one of the best ever! I usually have to change funny videos with educative videos over time because there werent videos with both at the same time.. until i found yours.. 11/10 mindblowingly good
I like how you call guns and weapons "force multipliers". Which is true, while also protecting your videos from unnecessary censorship.
The design of the God-Bug is actually pretty sick
This movie has a surprising lack of Denise Richards and I'm pissed.
She probably had better things to do than star in a bullshit sequel that doesnt need to exist
She’s doing only fans she don’t need this
As I was internally shaking my head at the movies convoluted plot, you mentioned "Like I said man; this movie is a ride and a half!"
I burst out laughing 🤣🤦♂️💯
I think you Roanoke severly misunderstands how the federation works in that setup - They cant force you into a meat grinder - you have to volunter for service first (there was no compulsory draft) and you can leave that service almost at any time (but that would have a price tag as it would mean forfeitting anything you were to gain from completening the service). That said they were prone to serious miscalculations that later on did lead to masacres - but it wasnt like they knew it will be a masacre and told you to go anyway. (aka deliberately trying to get you killed). If anything they were fairly often underestimating the enemy but that's it.
Authoritartian federation wouldnt allow the colonist to set on bug planets - instead they warned them that it was probably suicidal but even then they didnt stop the colonist from actually coming there anyway. Meaning the freedoms were highly upheld and the militatry didnt encrouch on civilan rights - and that aint how authoritarian govs work in reality. in a truly authoritarian rule if the gov says jump - you ask how high and in that universe a civi could easly say to them to bug off (pun intended) and he was free to do so. That said if you did join the military you were expected to follow orders in a very strict manner - so it could get harsh or brutal but still you could resign and leave without any repercussions but as long as you were in the military the dissent within the ranks would NOT be tolerated and was often brutaly supressed - especialy under combat conditions.
For eg a truly authoritarian rule would not spill the beans about the masacres but they would hush them via censroship instead what we saw was nearly full access of the press both even to the battlefields themselves and later on full disclosures and taking responisiblity for failures - another thing very anathematical to a true authoritarian rule.
That said the writter of the third movie seemed to completely ignore most of this and still went deliberately to show the miliatary to be something they were not. But hey - creative freedom i guess. Especially when they linked military with faith and showed the military as overbearing on the civlians.
On top of that many aspects of that movies were made deliberately to be silly (for comedic purposes) like that new advanced weapon - a shovel :P Or that a Marshall of the entire army was also a "pop" star xD
After seeing the Great Brain *succ* I dont think that I would like to know more Citizen Roanoke
They can do so much with this franchise.I only wish they get some help to decide the future of it..The latest animated movie was probably my second favorite.The humans and bugs have so much they still need to learn from each other.
Man I watched Starship Troopers when I was seven... thank you close friends older brother!
Notice how their uniforms are grey or black with an eagle on their chest, and the soldiers fight in trenches with grey uniforms, and they kill anyone who disagrees with them. It’s almost like a certain group that’s name rhymes with Yahtzee.
I love the goddy plot twist. Still one of my favourite couple of films ever. Funniest shit ever.
"So, you're smart."
Haha, you seriously overestimate my power!
in the beginning of the first movie it's explained that telepaths or whatever it's called can actually send thoughts and images to others as well as just influence them in general. when Carl and Rico are doing the card test at Carl's house