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* Mercilessly lampooned in ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' which of course was mercilessly lampooning the American government's real-world "America saves the World!" mentality. Being written by Matt Stone and Trey Parker meant it ''also'' mercilessly lampooned the detractors of said mentality (and everything else in between). |
* Mercilessly lampooned in ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' which of course was mercilessly lampooning the American government's real-world "America saves the World!" mentality. Being written by Matt Stone and Trey Parker meant it ''also'' mercilessly lampooned the detractors of said mentality (and everything else in between). |
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{{quote|'''America, ''fuck yeah!'' ''' |
{{quote|'''America, ''fuck yeah!'' ''' |
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'''Coming again to''' ''' |
'''Coming again to''' '''save the motherfucking day, yeah!''' }} |
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* U-571 is [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|vaguely based on]] events that really happened. The USN did indeed capture a Kriegsmarine Enigma code machine and books from a U-Boat in 1944. They did deliver it and the resulting intelligence did aid the Allied cause materially. However, the movie was based on real life incidents where the British Royal Navy had captured Kriegsmarine Enigma code machines and books in 1941 and 1942, enabling the more efficient decoding of enemy transmissions to begin, and the code had already been cracked by Bletchley Park building off of Polish prewar work. |
* U-571 is [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|vaguely based on]] events that really happened. The USN did indeed capture a Kriegsmarine Enigma code machine and books from a U-Boat in 1944. They did deliver it and the resulting intelligence did aid the Allied cause materially. However, the movie was based on real life incidents where the British Royal Navy had captured Kriegsmarine Enigma code machines and books in 1941 and 1942, enabling the more efficient decoding of enemy transmissions to begin, and the code had already been cracked by Bletchley Park building off of Polish prewar work. |
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* [[James Bond]] movies tend to subvert this trope, with the CIA more often than not being absent or impotent while Bond saves the day. (Quite often set in America, at least in the older movies.) Examples include (but aren't limited to): |
* [[James Bond]] movies tend to subvert this trope, with the CIA more often than not being absent or impotent while Bond saves the day. (Quite often set in America, at least in the older movies.) Examples include (but aren't limited to): |
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