Gung-Holier Than Thou: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (Mass update links) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (examples template) |
||
Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
---- |
---- |
||
{{examples}} |
|||
'''Examples:''' |
|||
== [[Film]] == |
== [[Film]] == |
||
Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
== [[Live Action TV]] == |
== [[Live Action TV]] == |
||
* Col. Sam Flagg in ''[[M*A*S* |
* Col. Sam Flagg in ''[[M*A*S*H]]'', as mentioned. |
||
** Majors Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan were this as well (although Houlihan relaxed later in the series). |
** Majors Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan were this as well (although Houlihan relaxed later in the series). |
||
* Arnold Rimmer in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. |
* Arnold Rimmer in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. |
Revision as of 18:12, 4 August 2014
"It's your gung-holier-than-thou attitude."
—Trapper John to Col. Flagg, M* A* S* H
|
Any military setting is bound to have at least one person who is Gung Holier Than Thou: a Neidermeyer with little, if any, authority. Typically a non-commissioned officer who likely sleeps with a copy of their force's code of conduct under their pillow. Given their relative lack of authority, anyone who is Gung Holier Than Thou is merely an annoyance. A temporary annoyance if only visiting, like Col. Flagg. A Gung Holier Than Thou can become too much of an annoyance and end up Reassigned to Antarctica.
A subtrope of the Rules Lawyer.
Examples of Gung-Holier Than Thou include:
Film
- Sgt. Maj. Dickerson in Good Morning Vietnam.
"That is humor. I recognize that. I also recognize your brand of soldier." |
- Sgt. Webster to Recon in Heartbreak Ridge.
- Lt Kendrick in A Few Good Men.
Live Action TV
- Col. Sam Flagg in M*A*S*H, as mentioned.
- Majors Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan were this as well (although Houlihan relaxed later in the series).
- Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf.