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* ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]''. The [[World War 2]] British Home Guard appears several times in the movie, including firing at the retreating Nazi commandos. They even have their own song, "The Soldiers of the Old Home Guard".
* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'': In the remake, the [[Dwindling Party]] of soldiers assigned to help Perseus in his mission are from an Honor Guard, distinguished soldiers [[Old Soldier|too old to fight on the front lines]] or [[Good Looking Privates|young inexperienced soldiers who look good in formation]]. They are all he gets because the rest of the Argosian army had recently been wiped out after picking a fight with Zeus and Hades.
* ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]:'' The Sheriff and his men. Robin takes a [[Take That|cheap shot]] at the Sheriff, who seized his family's property while Robin was fighting in the Crusades.
{{quote| '''Robin:''' ''My father couldn't get me into the National Guard.''<br />
'''Crowd:''' ''Oooooooohh... '' }}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': According to [[Word of God]], Lee Adama was a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves.
* ''[[Dad's Army (TV)|Dads Army]]'': Based on the writers' experiences in the Home Guard during [[World War II]]. Most of the humour stems from the fact that the members are too old, too young, or just incompetent in that bumbling English way.
* ''[[Horrible Histories (TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'' has had several sketches about the British Home Guard.
 
== Music ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]] IV'', Vagabond mentions that after the Kilrathi War ended, he took a billet in the Reserves, thinking it would be some easy money for little work now that they were at peace. So of course he got recalled to active duty for the next crisis.
** Blair is also in the Reserves, and finds himself recalled as well (by [[Large Ham|Maniac]], who throws in a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|mock-fanfare]] while issuing the order in a seedy bar).
** In the ''[[Wing Commander (Literaturenovel)|Wing Commander]]'' novel ''End Run'', Colonel Bondarevsky warns the pilots under his command that the pilots they'll find defending {{spoiler|the Kilrathi homeworld of Kilrah}} will not be typical aging "Home Guard" pilot with "rusting armor", but rather a very well trained and equipped force of some of their most experienced and skilled pilots.
** Also from ''Wing Commander IV'', we have the Border Worlds Militia. In the game, they are shown to be a somewhat ragtag force with modern (if somewhat nonstandard compared to what Confed flies) equipment. In the [[Novelization]], they are flying barely-holding together ships that would have been at home on the flight deck of the ''Tiger's Claw'' ten or twenty years earlier.
* ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'': The Gallian Militia unit that the protagonist commands is an example of a homeguard, constituting members of the nation from all ranks: singers, wealthy heiresses, university students, bakers...
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The ''[[Warhammer 40 K40000]]'' equivalent is the PDF (Planetary Defense Forces). Their quality is variable: depending on the people settling there (usually long-serving Guard regiments), a planet's PDF could be those of a sedentary population too stupid to dodge the draft or a bunch of veterans from one of the Imperial Guard's more experienced and successful regiments. Nonetheless, they are considered as underequipped and far less competent by the Imperial Guard. We repeat: the ''Imperial Guard'', [[Butt Monkey]] [[Cannon Fodder]] extraordinaire, believes the PDF to be beneath them.
** The Cadian Interior Guard is one of the better-equipped PDF units-- one in ten soldiers, regardless of skill, are recruited to the PDF, so Cadia actually has a home guard better than many planets' best troops. Seeing how as Cadia is a [[World of Badass]] sitting right in front of a giant [[Hell Gate]] [[Negative Space Wedgie]], it's probably for the best.
** The planet of Perlia got a "speedbump's speedbump" in the form of the Planetary Defence Volunteers, established by [[Ciaphas Cain]] in the sixth novel of the series. The author also used it as a chance to make an extended [[Shout-Out]] to [[Dad's Army (TV)|Dads Army]].
 
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
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