Chest of Medals: Difference between revisions

 

== Literature ==

{{quote| The Chief of the Army was wearing so many medal-ribbons they covered the entire front of his tunic on both sides and spread down on to his trousers as well. }}

* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Komarr]]'' The local Chief of ImpSec figured out that Lord Auditor Vorkosigan wasn't just a courier during his military career.

{{quote| "Dear God, Miles! I've never before seen you come the Vor Lord with ''intent''." }}

*** In the ''Memory'' example, Miles had two major medals... from both governments that were involved in previous war. He usually wears one or other, but at one event he wore both at once among lot of other medals. People were shocked as he's really fragile midget due to development problems by poison while his mother was pregnant with him. He even has a Cetagandan Order Of Merit, for service to his planet's (Barrayar's) ''former enemy'', an award which a Cetegandan would literally kill for, and which seems a bit weird considering Miles's ancestors quite notably defeated Cetaganda bloodily.

 

* ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'': in a sketch about a wheelchair race we see one of the participants pre-race talking with someone, shot from below. He's got a chest full of medals. He crosses his legs, at which time we see he's even got medals on the soles of his shoes.

* The British DJ/comedian Kenny Everett used to have a character on his TV show who was a fire-breathing American [[General Ripper]], frequently crashing into the sketch through a wall. He had massive shoulder pads on his uniform to allow him to show off the ludicrous number of medals he wore.

** For your information, images of Kirk and Data's awards (among others) can be found [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_decorations here].

{{quote| '''Bertorelli''': The first row are for service in Abyssinia. The second row are for service in North Africa.<br />

'''General Von Klinkerhoven''': And the bottom row?<br />

'''Bertorelli''': They are for servicing Fiats! }}

* In ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', "A Medal for Opie", Opie has an [[Imagine Spot]] about winning a foot race, when receiving his award he already has numerous medals pinned to his shirt, so Andy turns him around and pins it on his back.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': one of the characters claims that Anderson "could melt all his medals and make a life-sized statue of himself".

** The presentation and names ("Council Legion of Merit", "Service Star") of the games' achievements suggests that they are actual awards presented to Shepard over the course of the game, which would mean a quite hefty medal case for him, too.

* General Krukov in ''[[Command and Conquer Red Alert|Red Alert 3]]'' has a modest Soviet Officer uniform with one of two medals when we first see him in the prime universe (or for what the term Prime Universe [[Timey-Wimey Ball|means anymore]]). By the time he has adjusted to the [[Alternate Universe]] where the Soviets are winning the war, he looks more like Marshall Zhukov from the page image.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In one episode of [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s ''Breezly and Sneezly'', Breezly the polar bear manages to sneak into a fancy dinner held at the Army camp by masquerading as a 10-star general [[Up to Eleven|(five stars being the highest possible rank)]]. He successfully pulled this off for a while wearing only [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal|the upper half of the uniform]].

* In an old ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short set in the [[French Foreign Legion]], the fort commandant has so many medals on his chest they jingle loudly as he walks, and the bars holding them are wider than he is.