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** This actually gets carried over to ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', counted as being ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]]'', where he puts that to good use by equipping them with [[Killer Rabbit|Bonta]]-[[Powered Armor|Kuns]] and siccing them on some ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' enemies.
** Melissa Mao is the ''actual'' drill sergeant in ''FMP''. In the rugby episode, Sōsuke mentions he borrowed her notes, which come in a book titled ''How to Abuse a Trainee''.
* Lal Mirch from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', who is considered one of the [[Training
** Also, Colonello, who also wears an army outfit. Makes sense that both he and Lal Mirch would be extremely tough and strict drill sergeants, considering they hung out together ever since they were babies.
* Mostly averted in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', where Nanoha and Fate are kind, caring and understanding to their trainees. But when Teana goes too far in a mock match and puts lives at risk, Nanoha shows just why they call her the White Devil in coldly spectacular, brutal style. It was all for the best, but considering her usual sweet and gentle demeanor was very unexpected and quite jarring (which perhaps was her intention). Then again, the cadets remark that even their normal training menu is exhausting.
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*** In the last episode of ''[[Nanoha Striker S|StrikerS]]'', she notes that she hasn't complimented them much, but that they have become quite strong (most of them are [[Rank Inflation|AA rank, two ranks below her]]), and is blinking back tears while telling them not to cry.
* Tenma's gun coach in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]''.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Evangeline]] [[Old Master|A.K.]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|McDowell]] from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' She can be convinced, [[Determinator|with a lot of effort]], to instruct someone in magecraft and/or combat. She ''cannot'' be convinced [[Training
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' gives us training-obsessed, serious neatfreak Germany to fill this role: while not exactly that awful, he does have his moments.
* Hiruma from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' can be like this to his team when he has to. It's later shown that he used to spend his free time at a military base as a child, so that may have had an influence on his "teaching" methods.
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'''Algren:''' Well done, Sergeant.
'''Gant:''' Once you know the lingo, sir, everything falls into place. }}
* There are two sergeants in [[Glory]] one Irish and one black. They have differing styles; while the black one is a big-brotherly [[Sergeant Rock]] the Irish one is something of a [[Drill Sargent Nasty]]. The Irishman, though he seems to have quite realistic [[Noble Bigot|traces of racism]] is mostly a good soldier who has fixed beliefs about how to train recruits which he would apply irrespective of skin color.
=== You call this ''Literature''?! ===
* Fred Colon's reminiscing about his unnamed drill sergeant in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** Sergeant Detritus in the City Watch, who is implied to be in charge of training the watchmen by shouting. A lot. And when a troll that other trolls don't mess with yells, you and everyone within a few blocks listen... but again, he's just doing his job. Vimes reflects you need someone like Detritus yelling at coppers about honor and serving the public trust for a few weeks before you hand them over to the street monsters who teach the dirty tricks.
{{quote|'''Detritus:''' Only... two things come from Slice Mountain. Rocks an'... other kindsa rocks!}}
** Corporal Strappi in ''[[
* Corporal Himmelstoss of ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'', possibly one of the earliest examples of the trope (it was written by a German veteran of [[World War I]] shortly after said war). A coward who dreads going to the front, his troops get their revenge.
** Himmelstoss is redeemed later in the book, when one character meets him again after he's been wounded and placed on light duty with supply. Himmelstoss is there as the supply sergeant, and has after [[Going to See the Elephant|seeing the elephant]] and realising what the characters go through, turned into Sergeant Friendly, getting the character good food and even sneaking him some goodies on the side.
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**When they go past hammocks to wake people up they shout, "Show a leg!", it being assumed that a woman's leg was smooth and a man's hairy. In the first case you could go back to sleep. In the second you were out of luck.
**At one time newly pressed men were being herded to their stations and one turned on his bosun. The bosun had been a prizefighter in civil life and promptly rendered him unconscious.
*Valentinian in [[Belisarius Series]] is about as nasty a drill sergeant can be who is not positively villainous. Not only can he be brutal, he is perfectly prepared to kill someone who doesn't obey fast enough in extreme circumstances(usually these are pretty extreme circumstances to be fair, the most notable one being when he stopped some Hun mercenaries about to ravish the daughter of a Persian prince by shooting several of them with a bow).
**Belisarius himself is a pretty good Drill Sergeant Nasty from time to time.
**The Ye-Tai on the bad guy side are a whole nation of drill sergeants nasty.
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* Sgt. Maj. Sixta in ''[[Generation Kill]]'' will take it personally if you don't agree with him on the grooming standard's importance and will talk at length about it in his very...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-c2mD7hmQ unique vernacular]. Subverted late in the miniseries adaptation, where it's implied that he knows ''exactly'' how ridiculous he is, and does it when morale falls because he would rather the Marines spend their time hating him than being depressed.
* ''CPO Sharky'', played by Don Rickles as an equally-temperamental example.
* Subverted, of course, by Sgt. Carter in ''[[Gomer Pyle,
* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' had a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''An Officer and a Gentleman'' once, with Dennis Finch filling in the Emil Foley role towards a group of interns.
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode, "Ariel," Simon Tam, of all people, shows that he can be as harsh and unforgiving as any Drill Sergeant Nasty when he takes over the operation of a patient who is dying due to incompetent treatment (an incredibly ballsy move since, you know, he's a fugitive from the Core in a Core-based hospital) and manages to save his life. And then gives the doctor who was treating the guy a ''serious'' dressing down for his conduct. The whole scene in general is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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=== You call this ''Professional Wrestling''?! ===
* Most of the trainers in ''[[WWE Tough Enough]]'' adopt this persona during the show. But most notably [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] in Season 5, Kurt Angle in Season 4, Bill [[De Mott]] in Seasons 3 and 5, [[Bob Holly|Hardcore Holly]] in Season 2 and Tazz in the original season.
* Sgt. Siaughter, apart from being a [[G.I. Joe]] action figure, plied his trade in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] (where he was world champion in 1991), as well as the [[American Wrestling Association]] and [[National Wrestling Alliance]].
* [[WCW]] had [https://web.archive.org/web/20071102084957/http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/c/craig-pittman.html Sgt. Craig "Pitbull" Pittman]; while not actually ''billed'' as a drill sergeant like Slaughter was, his appearance and demeanor ("The beatings will continue until morale improves") fit the trope perfectly.
* [[WCW]] also had [https://web.archive.org/web/20111027035325/http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/buddy-lee-parker.html Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker]. The character was originally introduced as a ''police'' sergeant (in a tag team called The State Patrol), but was later repackaged as an army drill sergeant; this was a reference to his [[Real Life]] sideline as an instructor at the Power Plant, WCW's wrestling school.
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{{quote|"YOU are maggots with the souls of gods! I will TEACH you to evolve from your PATHETIC maggot-dom into your TRUE potential! You WILL become enlightened [[Warrior Poet|warrior-poets]]! When I am through with you, you will be able to kill a man with an ARTFUL HAIKU, by making that motherfucker CONTEMPLATE blossoming persimmons instead of defending himself from your deadly goddamn hands! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"}}
** The Arrow drill instructor is said to have had his ''own'' Drill Sergeant Nasty when he joined the army, who constantly abused him and tried to goad him into quitting. This annoyed him so much that it caused him to Awaken just as the sergeant was asking if he could beat the lowest time on the obstacle course. The mage then proceeded to beat the best time... [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|while dragging the drill sergeant along behind him]].
* Oh so very many Armed Forces members in ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]''.
* In one story of Al Bruno III's ''[[Binder of Shame]]'', Psycho Dave, [[Killer Game Master]] extraordinaire, turns ''[[Star Wars|Yoda]]'' into one of these.
* In almost any game, a player who has minimal or no contact with actual members of the armed services who makes a character in the service will often make one of these. The remainder will be [[Mildly Military]].
=== You call these ''Theme Parks''?! ===
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** Modern Warfare 2 opens with a 'basic training' level, but with a subversion—you're not one of the trainees but are the assistant instructor, and the reason you're doing everything the instructor is yelling at you is because you're the live demonstration of "this is how to do it" that the trainees need before its ''their'' turn to do it. (Also, Sgt. Foley is being entirely polite.)
* [[Z (video game)|Z]] has Sergeant Zod, who looks like and acts exactly like one of these, except that he's a robot. He specifically enjoys chewing out the two bumbling protagonist robots.
* ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'' has [[Mc Donell]] Benedict Miller acting a drill sergeant for FOXHOUND, and it is heavily implied in his bio that he is quite strict and harsh with his trainees, what, with his nickname "Hell Master" and all that. ''[[Metal Gear]] Online'' also has some of the trainers for various soldiers in training ops behaving in a somewhat similar manner to drill sergeants. In ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', it turns out that the Militaires Sans Frontieres has their own Drill Sergeant, and just like the trope, he is quite sharp-tongued, and is even willing to sarcastically suggest that the trainees commit suicide immediately if they simply stand around like an idiot when an enemy is nearby to drive home the importance of changing positions. He's even like this to Big Boss when he participates in the training regimens, although the overall tone indicates more respect than usual.
=== You call this a ''Web Comic''?! ===
* Nanoha of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is a [[Sergeant Rock]], strict, yet fair and ultimately caring for the growth of the [[New Meat]]. Since this doesn't make for much comedy however, the [[Fan Web Comic]] by ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029032410/http://www.q-ice.com/comic/nanoha/index.htm Q-Ice]'' [http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/3195/nano060tr.jpg turned her into a classic Drill Sergeant Nasty].
* When Tessa from ''[[SSDD]]'' starts service with the CORE she is initially assigned a drill sergeant who will literally rip your ears off if you give him lip (and outright states that most of the conscripts will be used as [[Cannon Fodder]]). When she joins the [[Super Soldier|"special forces"]] she gets [[Veteran Instructor|Corporal Drey]], who is slightly more agreeable.
* In addition to the comic with the above quote in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', the series features [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/10/24/ a strip] where Frank adopts a traditional Drill Sergeant Nasty manner when training the employees in how to sell video games in the holiday season.
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** The commander of a squad of security for Dr. Venture's yard sale invokes the trope - though he seems a bit obsessive about putting his men in dresses.
** "Two Ton" 21 took to this.
* Sgt. Slaughter on ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' and the old [[
** Beachhead in ''GI Joe'', who aside from being an ''Army Ranger'' Drill Sergeant Nasty, is, in the most recent revision of the universe, also called upon by the armed forces to train Marine, Delta Force, SEAL, and on special occasions Force Recon soldiers. This is ''before'' he joins GI Joe. Do not cross Beachhead. [[Merchandise-Driven|His toy]] is one of the few non-ninja good guys who comes with a mask that's ''not'' removable.
*** In [[The Movie]], Beachhead is put in charge of a squad of "Rawhides", new recruits still wet behind the ears. The General even points out that he's not worried about the Rawhides surviving combat because "first they need to survive Beachhead." He bawls them out in full Drill Sergeant Nasty mode, wanting a "stone cold righteous attention!". Shockingly, he lets one of the recruits get away with calling him "sweetheart" with only a mild admonishing. He is also unimpressed with the Rawhides' creative ways of beating his tests (using a drainpipe to sneak past an obstacle course, using a dog to sniff out a practice bomb), calling them reckless and holding them back from battle (where such thinking could easily get them killed).
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** The graduation ceremony for Homer's bodyguard class featured the Sergeant telling them they were worthless maggots, but passed anyway because their cheques cleared.
** Homer met another one while in the Army (G.I. D'oh). The first one was in the Navy.
** Also Air Force Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap from "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" (voiced by, again, R. Lee Ermey); not a drill sergeant, but clearly talked like one; he seemed to be a satire of Ermey's character in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''.
* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', established [[Jerkass]] Sentinel Prime is revealed to have been a drill sergeant back when he was Sentinel Minor. However, this was less because he wanted to make them stronger and more because he just hated being a drill sergeant.
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' had this played out during an episode where after a bully stole Riley's chain, it was revealed one of his various feats was being unfazed to one of the DIs and then sending a chair in his direction.
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* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': Yakko, Wakko and Dot run afoul of one after accidentally joining the army in "Boot Camping".
* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has recurring character Sergeant Doberman.
* In a flashback scene in ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'', [[Jennifer Lopez]] has a guy like this as a personal trainer before her match with [[Dolly Parton]]. He plays the Trope straight until she thanks him for everything, and then he gets a little choked up.
=== You call this ''Real Life''?! ===
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* [[The Joy of Painting|Bob Ross]]. [[Friend to All Living Things|No, really]]. He found he wasn't comfortable with the "nasty" bit the job required back in his Air Force tenure days, and that's what led him to become the [[Nice Guy]] everyone knew him as.
* During the Allied retreat from the Japanese in Burma, General Joseph "Vineger Joe" Stillwell gathered a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] together from the vast herd of refugees and told them that many of them would hate him but all would get to India safely. The last was true, the first was probably true.
* Florence Nightingale. For good reason. When germ theory was poorly developed and hospitals to swamped for subtle surgical craftsmanship the main way to save lives was discipline.
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* Coach Schneider from ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]] 2: Freddy's Revenge''. Adding the spicy new ingredient of "homophobia" to the already-potent Drill Sergeant Nasty recipe, Schneider is a frequenter of leather bars who likes nothing better than forcing adolescent boys to do endless push-ups and run laps around the gym in the dead of night. He's eventually {{spoiler|tied up in the showers, whipped on his bare buttocks with towels, then clawed to death by Freddy Krueger}}.
* [[R. Lee Ermey]] plays an actual coach in ''[[Saving Silverman]]''.
=== I've read ''Literature'' that's more exciting than you! ===
* Alberich from ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' has to put on the Drill Sergeant Nasty role on a regular basis, as part of his job as Weaponsmaster.
** Worth noting is that he's only like this when he's actively training people. He's fully capable of advising and counselling when needed.
* In ''[[
* In [[Horatio Hornblower]] a chief is once shown flogging a man with a knotted rope, for being the last up when the all hands is called. He simply follows the sailors along and randomly picks the last man even though mathematically there has to be someone last.
=== I've seen ''Live-Action TV'' that's less brainless than you! ===
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* Ken has taken up this role in some ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'' strips.
** "You in the back! You're not kicking enough ass!"
* Another female example: The dance team coach (even wearing a T-shirt with the words "Coach Hartman") in [https://web.archive.org/web/20080316203317/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=432 this] ''[[Loserz]]'' strip.
* Jim Beard Sprynter, the gym teacher for the [[All-Ghouls School]] in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', is this (besides being a [[Ghost Pirate]]).
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* Toph from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' when training Aang in earthbending in "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book 2/09 Bitter Work|Bitter Work]]". {{spoiler|Zuko}} has traces of it as well.
{{quote|"Remember, firebending in and of itself is not something to fear. But if you don't respect it, IT WILL CHEW YOU UP AND SPIT YOU OUT LIKE AN ANGRY [[Biological Mashup|KOMODO RHINO]]!!"}}
* Jorgen from ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'': [[No Name Given|The Teacher With No Name]] in episode 32: Dexter Detention.
** "You make me sick, criminal!"
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'''Kurt:''' Our prayers have been answered! }}
** One episode also has an actual Drill Sergeant Nasty teach them Survival training who forced them (by them, we mean the ''teenaged'' X-Men, Brotherhood, and their ''Human'' student friends) to do inhumane courses designed for Military training. They chose him over Logan's sessions, leading to many one-liner jokes by the Professor.
* Rainbow Dash acts like one in the "May the Best Pet Win" episode of [[My Little Pony:
* [[Lampshaded]] in the ''[[Daria]]'' episode "Fat Like Me". Sandi is swimming to try to lose weight and Quinn is helping her:
{{quote|'''Quinn''': Did Cleopatra rest when she was inventing mascara? Did Neferiti rest when she was posing for statues? Did Helen of Troy rest when she was doing whatever it was she did? Beauty never rests! Now, swim, you cow, swim!
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