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== Anime ==
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* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' - The Time-Space Administration Bureau Military Academies.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' - The [[Magic Knight]] Cadet Classes of Ariadne {{spoiler|which Yue Ayase joins when she was trapped with amnesia in [[Magic World|Mundus Magicus]]}}.
* ''[[
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'''Bill:''' Dude, there's no way I can do infinity push-ups.<br />
'''Ted:''' Maybe he'll let us do 'em girly-style? }}
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* ''Taps'' - a [[Military School]] is to be closed down and razed. The outraged students refuse to allow it and end up in a confrontation with the authorities.
* ''[[Up the Academy]]'' - a comedic take.
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* ''[[The Omen|Damien: Omen II]]''. All the better to help the Antichrist take over the world.
* ''[[Evilspeak]]'' is set in a military school, where one student is bullied too far and he retaliates with [[Hollywood Satanism|satanic power]].
* In ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', this is what Neil, one of the members of the title group of youths, is threatened with by his [[Fantasy
== Literature ==
* ''[[Ender's Game]]'' with the Battle School.
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] had one [[In Space]] in ''[[Space Cadet (
* Schola Progenium in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' takes in Emperor Servants' orphans at a pretty young age, so for several lower levels it's pretty much this trope, and this can be seen in a couple of the tie-in novels that [[Demoted to Extra|bother to mention Schola at all]], like ''[[Ciaphas Cain|Cain's Last Stand]]''. For older cadets already taking special courses it's more like Military Academy, though.
* ''Brotherhood of the Rose'' by David Morrell. The protagonists are from an orphanage where the children are raised to be patriotic cannon fodder for the US military.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In the first few seasons of ''[[Malcolm in
* An episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' parodied this, combining it with a Cinderella story. "You forgot your... boot?"
* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' episode "Army of One". Tony Soprano and his wife Carmela disagree over whether to send their son A.J. to a [[Military School]].
* ''[[Dead Like Me]].'' - A military school features as the site of a reap. Inverted in that the soon-to-be-dead cadet loves the school and constantly pushes herself to excel. {{spoiler|She dies on the obstacle course, where a safety rope breaks just as she makes it to the top of the tower climb.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* Parodied in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', where a [[Zany Scheme]] to get Billy into a prestigious school ends with him realizing the school that he just succeeded in getting into was actually [[Military School]]. The last shot of the cartoon is of him standing in front of a firing line.
* The Exofleet Academy in ''[[Exo Squad]]''. Although it doesn't appear in the series itself, it plays an important role in e.g. Coleen O'Reilly's [[Backstory]] ({{spoiler|the Neosapien War began on the day of her graduation from the Academy and she was one of the few cadets to have survived the onslaught}}).
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