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[[File:STrek9 9018.jpg|link=Star Trek: The Original Series|frame| "[[Futurama|I won't lie to you, men; none of you but me will be coming back from this mission alive."]]]]
{{quote|''"Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain [[Plot Armor|Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.]]''"
|'''Hedley Lamaar''', ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' }}
[[The Cavalry]] has arrived! Unfortunately, they're all wearing [[Red Shirt|red shirts]]... and they all graduated from the [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Marines of ''[[One Piece]]'', despite antagonizing the protagonists, who ''are'' pirates, are full of people who legitimately want to make the world a safer place, [[Knight Templar]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] members aside. However, they are mostly victims of the [[Worf Effect]], and by the time of the Paramount War arc, anyone who isn't a member of the admiralty can get swept aside with ease.
* [[The Federation]] forces in the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' had the GMs, mass-produced mecha whose sole purpose was to die in droves against the [[Monster of the Week|latest Zeon special forces mechas of the week]]. They even had red chestplates.
** Not quite accurate. [[Informed Ability|Stats-wise]], they were superior to all the Zeon regular suits but they couldn't stand up to [[The Rival|Char's]] [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|Gelgoog]], [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower|Zeong]], or [[Anti-Villain|Dozle's]] Big Zam ([[Memetic Mutation|which weren't mass produced]]). [[Idiot Ball|Balls]], [[Stealth Pun|on the other hand]] qualify entirely.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Goblins]]'', they wipe out part of an army by using a shield that triggers random major magic effects whenever it's hit. [http://www.goblinscomic.com/d/20081010.html\] This tends to subvert the [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]] in that the redshirts that do hit are probably doomed while those who miss may live, or perhaps the goblin is doing a redshirt-type act, as in the background it hints at the word "redshirt" not "redshirts"—which reminds long timers that {{spoiler|the shield is random enough to backfire killing the goblin, upgrading the enemies, summoning weird dangerous stuff, or worse}}.
* Averted in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' where the Azure City Army gives a damn good accounting of itself. Yes, they lose but they take a lot of [[Mooks]] with them and manage a fighting retreat in good order.
* The Caldaian Enforcers of ''[[Sarab]]''.
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