Badass Israeli/Playing With
Basic Trope: An Israeli character who is a Badass.
- Straight: Sgt. Avi Steinman is an excellent marksman, Krav Maga user, and helicopter pilot.
- Exaggerated: Avi is a One Man Army who wipes out terrorist groups, topples hostile governments, and goes toe-to-toe with entire armies on a daily basis.
- Justified: Because of Israel facing a large amount of hostility from both regional and international terrorist organizations and enemy states, its soldiers need to be very well trained.
- Inverted: Avi is a total weakling who runs at the sight of his own shadow.
- Subverted: Avi is a Jerkass who constantly harasses civilians at checkpoints, bulldozes people's houses, and helps settlers evict people. He has little fighting skills to speak of.
- Double Subverted: ...But then he Takes a Level In Badass, gets better and single-handedly saves an Israeli embassy from hostage-takers.
- Parodied: Avi is a stereotypically harmless, bookish Jew, who just happens to be able to break every bone in your body without breaking a sweat.
- Deconstructed: We take a hard look at why Avi seems to feel he needs to be a Badass, and the ramifications of his aggressive attitude in his personal life.
- Reconstructed: In the face of increasing criticism toward Israel's militant policies, Avi charges in with a machinegun to kick some old-fashioned terrorist ass.
- Zig Zagged: Avi Steinman is an indestructible Badass, but the rest of Israelis With Infrared Missiles is portrayed as a mediocre Redshirt Army. Except for Lt. Yarden, who is portrayed either as a Distressed Damsel, Faux Action Girl, or Action Girl. Then, Col. Alex Rosen comes to shake things up and the Israeli army becomes a Badass Army. But he's not even from Israel. Lt. Yarden is killed by a prematurely detonated mortar round when the actress playing her drops off the project. Then Steinman suffers from Badass Decay but manages to keep functioning as an Action Survivor.
- Averted: Avi is a Non Action Guy.
- Enforced: "...and we need an Israeli to round off our Multinational Badass Crew."
- Lampshaded: "Are Israelis always this tough?"
- Invoked: Avi's father made him join the Israeli army to toughen him up.
- Defied: "Not every Israeli devotes all their time to learning how to kill people, you know!"
- Discussed: "These soldiers are Israeli, so they'll know Krav Maga."
- Conversed: "Have you ever noticed how people from Israel always seem to be badass?"
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