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** ''[[Warcraft]] III'' features footmen who, if clicked on enough, ''start spouting recruitment phrases''. "Grab your sword and fight the Horde!" "Uncle Lothar wants you!" They also have a "captain of the guard" special unit available in certain campaign missions and in the map editor, who muses that his job entails constant danger and lousy pay, but at least <s>[[Leeroy Jenkins|he's got chicken]]</s> he gets to hobnob with royalty.

** Similarly, repeatedly clicking on a civilian in ''[[Starcraft]]'' will make him declare, "I wanna be all I can be!" and decide to join the Terran forces, with his only misgiving being, "I'm a little claustrophobic though. Hope they don't put me in any tight spaces". Repeated clicking on one of the SCV construction units reveals that... it's the same guy, now sealed into a tiny crew compartment, babbling, "I told 'em I was claustrophobic, I gotta get outta here!"

* Mocked rather cruelly in ''[[Star Wars|X-Wing Alliance]]'', where one of your emails is a recruitment poster for Red ~~Squadron--the~~ first into battle, and the first to replace the first who fall in battle. And this is what they sent ''Rebel'' pilots.

* Mocked rather cruelly in ''[[Star Wars|X-Wing Alliance]]'', where one of your emails is a recruitment poster for Red Squadron—the first into battle, and the first to replace the first who fall in battle. And this is what they sent ''Rebel'' pilots.

** In ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]] 2'', Imperial troopers occasionally mention the Imperial recruitment campaigns with a slogan which is a parody of this trope.

* The [[Feelies]] from ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]: No Remorse'' included a newsletter that had an advertisement for joining "MilOps" (Military Operations Cartel), the assault arm of the [[Mega Corp|WEC's]] forces.